Emails. Paying bills, recording notes from 9/17/24, and other prep work stuff.

Brainstorming on documentation for the pause and pivot proposal. Prep work and recording notes.

Meeting with Steve and Alan. Going over some rough budgets. Alan had done some prep work there on the budgets. The budgets were in two categories - per people and per area/department (with some flex). The extra portion on the budgets will help each department with R&D (research and development) stuff for their department.

I was pitching some things and we had some good back and forth (conversations and discussions). I took some notes from our meeting. Steve was reporting on meetings with Mike and other possible investors. Here are some other notes that were recorded as part of the meeting:

- Inside look (efficiency) - using modern tech to solve those problems.

- -Problems with bids (hard to figure out actual costs).

- Our developers doing custom client work. What would that look like?

- Steve was saying that is really helps playing both sides of the fence (developer and a user).

- Our clients eat with their eyes. They are looking for the pretty or shinny type tools.

- Sometimes we oversell ourselves. We start offering custom without having them try things first.

- Let's talk and make a plan (talking about interactions with clients). Some clients like to help fund development and others just want it all the way done and then pay.

- We talked about an approach like this: Just try it out, if we need to change something, let's talk, but give it a try for 3 months.

- Steve was talking about sales. He was saying, just talk to people about what we do and offer. There are lots of people (potential clients) who have needs.

Towards the end, Alan and I talked about swapping out some training stuff (adilas stuff and code stuff). Quick phone call with Steve to go over a few things. He had to drop off early due to his laptop running out of power.

Working with Hamid on his budget tool. Lots of training and review on both ColdFusion and JavaScript debugging. He is trying to tackle a bunch, all at once. We are slowly making progress. Mostly a work session tonight.

Working on a proposal for Steve and Alan. Looking at a number of pages and pieces from earlier this year and end of year last year. Reviewing, planning, looking at numbers, and doing prep work for the proposal.

Quick meeting with Bryan. He had some questions on flex attributes for stock/units. We also talked briefly about restaurants and he showed me the "no" and "extra" functions for his line description modifiers. Say you are selling hamburgers. The "no" and "extra" options could help for things like: no pickle, no onions, extra ketchup, extra cheese, etc. These line description modifiers have to be turned on (a setting) and then added and maintained on a per item basis.

Work session with Abby and Shannon. We worked on two pages in the presentation gallery this morning. We worked on some sub pop-ups (modals) for the maintenance page and some new information on the vision and future page. Our plans are to circle back around and fill in more plans for the vision and future stuff. That will be fun. Anyways, that's where we are headed.

Met with Alan again. We were working on some plans and rules and expectations. We logged into adilas and did some looking at budget numbers, revenue, and expenses. Good session, trying to figure out a plan and what processes and/or rules to put in place. The further we go, the more set some of these processes need to be. We are making good progress.

Meeting with Cody for code review on the version 3 adilas label builder. Introduced Cody to Alan and let them talk for a bit. Going through the pages and finding bugs and going over code. Deep code review of his project. We went through a bunch of pages for both ColdFusion and JavaScript pages. Looking good.

Phone call with Alan talking about budgets, structure, plans, and how to get control of the development and planning. Setting up guide rails, processes, and procedures. Switched over to GoToMeeting and did some planning. Lots of talk about budgets, departments, and processes.