Meeting with Steve over a GoToMeeting session. We were talking shop and going over budgeting and funding and different things. Here are some of my notes:

- CAS Accounting - Client Accounting Services - aka compliance and oversight - new accounting buzz word and service offerings - Basically, the client run a system and then the CPA's provide oversite and guidance

- Offering full services to our clients - setup, consulting, data imports, training, servers, IT, development, custom, design, etc.

- Steve was talking about how he describes the "inventory stack" - 3D inventory stack - relational model

- On parts and items, parent categories - can cross over between part categories

- Looking back, we used a thing called "usage classes" for stock/units - basically a way of adding flags and tags - being able to search by those things

- 2D vs 3D - searchability 2D (this or that) or searchability 3D (this, this, that, or whatever) - allowing for a deeper search or more a connected story based look at numbers and values.

- We are doing more deployment stuff - working more on that - that is awesome. We used to always push that work out to outside or independent reps and consultants

- Just an idea - having Brandon and Steve be a bug fixer - Monday through Thursday - have Alan cover Fridays

- I'll run some projects and Steve will run other projects

- Setting goals for our guys on what they could generate coming back in - see excel spreadsheet - budgeting both inbound (what we/they bring in) values and outbound (what we pay out) values

- Even though we do custom... what if we switch the focus and just keep building out the main core? This is always been a question. Often, we spend a lot of time that we could be building our own thing out, but instead, we build a one-off for a different client or need.

- We are getting pulled toward big... we like small, medium, and even maybe medium/big but not really big

- Our clients are pulling us - keep following that - we have both static clients and dynamic clients - the static clients take what they are given and run with it - the dynamic clients want changes and push for those pieces and features - straight up, the static clients are easier to manage - the dynamic clients are harder to manage, but they bring an element of life to the game - interesting

- Selling more dedicated servers - start on a shared environment and then moving to dedicated as needed

- Talks about the datasource project (aka World Building) - 100-150 hours still needed - able to scale both up and down - mix and blend code servers and database servers and able to move and load balance things better

- The best team that we have ever had - keep building and pushing

- Linking small building blocks together - nothing super crazy, just mixing small pieces together

- Moving more towards estimates vs bids

- Build in some training - not getting outdated or into the burnout zone

- Prices keep going up - we need to follow suite - passing on the cost increases

- Diminishing rates of return - trying to figure out new things - (in space - an ink pen won't work - will a pencil still work, let's use that)