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00:00:00 - [SHAWN_REMICK] All good. How are doing, man? 00:00:03 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Not too bad. Making it through Monday. My meetings catching up. 100. Your day going? Good call this morning. 00:00:14 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. It was. Not bad. At least got some stuff going on. So Yeah. Greg, I think, tends to be a very level headed we've had good success with him of all folks. He's really been a good guy to work with. 00:00:27 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. I agree a 100. I've worked with him a little bit on this tariff task force that we have going to and always contributes, follows up, takes care of his shift. So it's good. 00:00:41 - [SHAWN_REMICK] It's all we can hope for in most people. Right? Yeah. 00:00:45 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Is that too much to ask? 00:00:47 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Seems like it, but 00:00:49 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] yeah. Sometimes. 00:00:52 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Hey. So I'll I'll kinda kick off here and give you an update of why we're talking. And then, you know, if I say something that you're not aware of or or it's not a term that we've, you've heard, let me know. So we've been aligning with Matt Howard on I'll use the word AI As we get to know each other, we'll learn. I hate the word AI. But, we've been aligning on all these initiatives and what makes the most sense. And I would say, generally, at the moment, on the SawStop front, we've been a little bounced around. Not intentionally. Not anybody specific even. But we've I'm working with Patty on some things. I'm working with marketing on some conversation and alignment. Chris is it Christy or Chris Christine? Christine. Christine Riker. We had a couple meetings with her at the end of last year Yeah. Training. Like, we've just bounced all around, and our ask for Matt was who do you want us to align with to be the I'm gonna use the word front man Mhmm. When these topics come up internally to your conversation. And so your name was, thrown under the AI bus, and so that's why we're here. We wanna give you a little bit of update kinda where we're headed, what our vision is, what kind of engagement we need maybe from you and the team. And then in the next thirty days or so if you could circulate that kind of around your group and then and give us feedback. So I'm gonna just data dump a bunch of information to you. I'm sorry for that in advance, but I think it'll be the easiest way to get you up to speed. So 00:02:37 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. That's cool. And I think I'll just say I'm happy to help coordinate this. It's something I'm passionate with, and I have experienced the pain of being bounced around with this leadership team and believe we can be more efficient. So happy to lean in, and I'll probably lean on Ronnie a little bit too. I'm helping him grow and develop in a few areas, and so it could be a good opportunity for some of his support as well. 00:03:04 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. And he'll have he'll have some roles here. He's already been involved a bit. However, he probably needs involved more. I'll come back to that in a minute. And then Okay. There's a second part of that, which is I think that there's just so many conversations happening. It's almost hard to keep people up to speed, and so that's been 00:03:28 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] a little bit 00:03:29 - [SHAWN_REMICK] of a challenge. So I'll give you a quick overview. Let me share my screen. I'll get you added to a group that's it says North American technology, and it's called program management. It really means AI program management. But in here is a spreadsheet that is gonna be the key to a lot of these conversations. So I'm gonna pop that open real quick while we're chatting. The first initiative was policy and training. I think you're probably familiar with the policy initiative. 00:04:01 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] I reviewed that one. 00:04:02 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. We're gonna yep. We're gonna take another round of change to that, and so that will you'll see that recirculate. And so, you know, same kind of thing. We'll wanna shepherd that through everybody that is a stakeholder and get some some feedback. And, really, the change is gonna be around lightening up the tone just a smidge. It was a little authoritative, and we're gonna make it a little less authoritative. Okay. I mean and specifically around data that we don't own. So I worked at a previous role, and we used a red light, green light, yellow light approach. And so that's what we're gonna be introducing. And red light is people with Social Security numbers. That data never goes in AI. Yellow light is things that if you didn't work here, you wouldn't know about them. Right? Proprietary, somewhat internal data. That needs to be an approved tool. And then there's green light data, stuff that's, you know, available broadly on the website. Most marketing data turns out to be a lot of green light data. Right? If it's a customer facing flyer, then there's no reason why you can't use whatever you wanna use. And so the general, like, example I like to give is I don't tell you whether you can use Bing, and Scott doesn't say if you can use Google or not. Like, we're not here to be the the Internet search police. We're also not here to be like, hey. You we know it's happening. Let's be honest. So let's get 00:05:34 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] the really like this direction because that was some of my feedback against the original policy, being a little bit more clear on what is reasonable and what is not. And I didn't even have a tiering system where I could propose what other than specific examples. So this does make it more clear. 00:05:56 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. And so when that goes, that will we're running behind. And and, obviously, a lot of people, I have to be, like, cloak and dagger and be like, can't tell you why we're behind, but we're behind. Well, you know we're behind because we're working on Adaptec. So once that slows down a bit, I anticipate being able to get I'll I'll pick up the speed a bit on that. But this is that red light, green light conversation, and this is in the training. We talk about what each is. It's pretty clean and simple. It's also really hard to refute if you put Social Security numbers into something and it gets flagged. It's really easy to be like, we clearly made this you know, front loaded this for you. So Yeah. That gets me to the second topic, which is this training deck. So we're presenting this training, in person, 12 people max. We are rounding third base, I think, at TTS Festool. 00:06:52 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Oh, great. 00:06:53 - [SHAWN_REMICK] We have two more training sessions this week and next week, and then we are done here. Well, not done done, but we are hitting the pause button here. And then we would like to refocus on SawStop to offer the same thing mid to late April through May. And we'll do it the same way. We'll have I need to get your numbers, and I'll explain that in a minute. But probably five to six sessions, 12 people maximum. It's Gage, myself, and Scott. We need to probably pull Ronnie into that conversation, and at least let him join. Scott joins on when he has time to contribute. Gage and I split the content. It's pretty it's an hour and a half. It's not the most exhilarating topic, but we try to take breaks, have group question time, make it a little more interactive. But Yeah. 00:07:46 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] That's great. 00:07:46 - [SHAWN_REMICK] It is thick content. So 00:07:49 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Why why are you limiting the size? Because Just to make sure people are not checking out in the meetings and are actually paying attention. 00:07:59 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. So with large groups, you get people who shut their cameras off. You get people who don't wanna ask questions amongst a large group because their question's gonna sound ignorant. And this is a topic where we found people are coming to us with a variety of knowledge, and we wanna try to make it as as conversational as we can. And I think after twelve to 15, it's not conversational anymore. It's just me talking. So 00:08:26 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Got it. Makes sense. 00:08:28 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. That's the goal. And I it's a little bit of time front loaded, but at the end of the day, we'd still probably offer two to three classes. And so offering five to six doesn't feel like it's really that much more work, in my opinion. I did try to record some of this at one point, and I just didn't like the feel. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't have deep explanations as to why, but I think it just history of training people in IT stuff, the smaller ones are the little bit better. 00:08:56 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] I trust in it. It makes sense. 00:08:58 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. Seems to be working, but I there's gonna get to a point where we're gonna have to record this, though. Like, I mean, to get it to live, like, new employees and I mean 00:09:07 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. 00:09:08 - [SHAWN_REMICK] It it's not but for now, I think this is kind of the the feel we've gotten. So this spreadsheet will get you access to is a lot of things to us, but it is a tracker of all the employees, here and then a bunch of ones and zeros over here. So, the one that I will probably say you need maybe worry about because our ask is gonna kinda be to help us understand who needs to take the course. And so attended AI is how you can see who, your company has taken it. AI training offered is who we offered it to. So right now, we've offered it to 71, and I have 22 people completed. I'm gonna filter this down to just the people we did ones with. And what you'll see is we have taken out sales reps. This is our this was our approach. So we took out sales reps. We took out logistics personnel. We took out out repair personnel, and we kinda said that we wanna focus on the person who sits at a desk more than six hours a day as the first pass of this. Mhmm. Doesn't mean the sales folks I mean, we've already actually had conversations that there's probably a different version for sales that is more tailored to sales. There's probably a different version for logistics and repair that's just a thirty minute overview. But we're what we're gonna wanna do is is pick a list of people that we think is the key folks. We don't wanna skip over folks. You know, I'll give you an example. Our distribution clerks, instead of the computer all day long, we think they'll benefit from this. 00:11:06 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. But they're not using it, and they were probably excluded from the training. 00:11:11 - [SHAWN_REMICK] No. They they were included. So, again, they sit at the same computer for six hours a day and do general processing work. Those are the folks we want in. The folks who are up moving around picking orders, repairing tools, they're not our target in the first I wish I could make this go away. They're not our target. 00:11:32 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] That would require that you restart. 00:11:34 - [SHAWN_REMICK] I know. And I I I'm really trying to avoid that. And I I think I have zero deferrals left as it points out. So, yeah, that's kind of been our target audience. And so what we'd like to do is I'll make another one in here in in column p, and I'll probably just call it SawStop proposed. 00:11:58 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Mhmm. 00:11:59 - [SHAWN_REMICK] And you're a finance guy, I'm sure you're gonna be super Excel savvy. And if you want you wanna go through here, if you want us to take a first pass at it, I don't feel strongly. But we wanna get, you know, kind of a first pass proposal on what you're thinking for and by you, I mean, the organization, on who you wanna get included in this training in April. 00:12:22 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. That's that's a couple quick questions on that. One, does this list include SawStop employees? Mhmm. It does. I see Paul. Yes. It does. Okay. Cool. So we got those in there already. 00:12:39 - [SHAWN_REMICK] And if you go into company name and you do that, you will get only you. 00:12:47 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Alright. Amazing. Okay. And you've already done the next thing I was gonna ask for, which is already I can already see if they're using some of these tools or not. 00:12:55 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yep. So that'll be chat GPT licenses are here. Copilot Enterprise is here, and so you'll be able to see that. And and those people, are for sure ones we would want to take the course. Yeah. Yeah. But, like, you know, I mean, some of yours are gonna be a lot easier, I think. Like, obviously, I would assume all your engineering, all of your finance. Like, those are 00:13:22 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. 00:13:22 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Easy wins. 00:13:25 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] I can get this relative I can get this really quick. My first brush will be yeah. No problem. 00:13:33 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Cool. So that's kinda part a of this. Part b of this, so a was training in in that. B of this is, the policy, which we talked already about. C is sharing our direction a little bit with you so that when you hear noise, we'd we'd like to find time with your leadership to share this message as well. And we did this internally. Matt was in ours. We just kinda shared that, like, we want to enable people. We are not putting a brick of cash on the table to do that, and so we're being very selective in what we do. And I think that sometimes has been a little bit of a conversation, and we just wanna hear, like, hey. Where are pain points? What can we do? What can we address? You know, common thing we've gotten a lot across the system is, well, I like this one. Well, that's cool. But we're we're not gonna go buy every one of them, and we're not gonna go it's more than generative AI. And so that's been some of our conversation. I will share with you. I don't know if you've talked to Patty about this. Have you seen Patty's Copilot test space? 00:14:56 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] What they're using in service and marketplace operations for some of the chat? 00:15:03 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. 00:15:03 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. 00:15:04 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. So this is a proprietary agent that can only reference knowledge we've given it, and she's got a guy, Weiss, mister Brian. Brian. Yep. He's running with this. And I mean 00:15:17 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] They're getting a lot of Yeah. Leverage out of it already. 00:15:20 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. Yeah. He's he spoke very highly of it, and he's making some cool tweaks. Like, I think he's in this. I got a we met today for a brief period. He gave me a list of, you know, pain points he needs. And, honestly, this is a perfect example of what we wanna see. We wanna enable the user to learn this and then let them run. 00:15:41 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Innovate. Yeah. That's great. 00:15:43 - [SHAWN_REMICK] He was I was taken back today by how far ahead he is beyond, honestly, many other folks I've talked to in the company. So, yeah, it's I think they're I mean, you can see again, it's because my thing is there. But, I mean, he's even got, like he's prompting it to ask you questions and giving them follow alongs, and that's been working really well. We gave him some tips and tricks on using multi agent, which is something that I think he'll benefit from. And then when to leverage the LLM against or when to only use factual information. Like, he's even doing some strength. Like, it's I was pretty I was pretty impressed with what he's built. It it's awesome. 00:16:29 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] That's great to hear. And he's talked about it a little bit in in a few of our staff meetings. We haven't gotten into the architecture or any of the details behind it, but he's seen a ton of value and time savings for his team. And the consumer response has been pretty dang good. 00:16:48 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. Yeah. We're excited. He he took it and ran, and so this probably gonna become one of our key use cases that we'd like to share. And I think our goal is in May when we're out there for the collaborative is to really highlight some of these use cases. So we may stick this in our deck of some examples of where it's been working. We have a couple here at Festool as well, and so we'll pull those together, but I just wanted to get you up to speed on that. One other thing, I I think you're aware of the ChatGPT testing. Was that your request that we tied NetSuite to ChatGPT? 00:17:20 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Sorry. 00:17:21 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. 00:17:22 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] I I was just wondering. I mean, it was one of those exploratory things. 00:17:26 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. Did you get a chance to play with it at all? 00:17:28 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. I didn't I couldn't really get it to work very well. Yeah. We honest. 00:17:34 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. I got it to answer some questions and tell me how many IT employees you guys had and stuff, but I didn't feel great about it. I will tell you 00:17:41 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] this feel great about it 00:17:42 - [SHAWN_REMICK] either. Here's what I'd like to do. I'd like to open up a conversation Copilot being that tool. It is possible to tie Copilot to NetSuite, so that is technically capable. And here here are the two use cases that I will give it to Brian. He owns both of these ideas, and they are they were very well spoken. One of them was they would love for the CRM data to be available to this technical services agent. He's like, there's a wealth of knowledge in our previous cases, and we should leverage that. And I was like, oh, wow. That is Yeah. That is cool. And the second one he brought up was for management and above to be able and his words that I thought were really good were to be able to act fast and make quick decisions with data driven background. His suggestion was to have an agent that could do NetSuite querying to help drive quick decisions in logistics and in other spaces. Also, very well said and and very great idea. And so I thought, you know, maybe if I I think we have hesitation on how quickly we wanna start wielding that sword. But, I I think if we pick the right people, you know, folks who would have access to this anyway, yourself, maybe Patty, like a few key leaders that are are fairly higher in your organization to testing it because what I shared with them, is we also while we wanna make sure it can answer your questions, we wanna make sure it can answer the questions we don't want you to know the answer to. You know? Yeah. You know, what's what's Casey's salary? We don't want that to work. And so, yeah, I think I think picking a few folks and using that use case and then maybe from there exploring if we could tie it into this technical thing from a a data perspective, we'd like to at least start exploring that idea, having some conversations. We'll pull Ronnie into some of that and see if we can do it, but there is a connector between the two. And I think I think doing it with Copilot is a better approach because we can use Copilot's going to know the user, and it's going to know what access that user has. Whereas chat GPT is more of a shotgun approach where everybody has the same back end accounting. 00:20:26 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Ron did not know that. 00:20:28 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. And that's why I kinda shared with Ron. I'm a little hesitant to grow that because we're gonna have to create an agent per access level. And so if you're somebody who shouldn't ever know about logistics data, then we're gonna have to have a logistics access agent. And then Mhmm. Unless we unless we buy the interface between cope ChatGPT that does single sign on so that we can start passing credentials, that gets real complicated. So Yeah. Yeah. Those are some hopes. I'd love if you wanna circulate those thoughts with any stakeholders internally that need to be a part of that, I think it would be good. Those would go ahead. 00:21:11 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] No. No. The I fully support Copilot. The only reason I was even exploring the GPT connection was because that's what the link that I was working with the the NetSuite sales rep on. And so if there's a I I think for that type of solution, the front end of the system doesn't matter as much. And it's the exact same back end, but it sounds like Copilot is better controlled from an access standpoint. And so it's a win win. And it's less expensive for us, right? Because then we don't need for every person that would potentially need this functionality for queries, questions, you know, quick decisions, a chat GPT license as well. 00:21:57 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. And I think a lot of people are gonna end up with a Copilot license on the enterprise side anyway. That's once we do the training and folks see what they can do with Copilot, I would envision most of your folks are gonna want, you know, something around that anyhow. Does that make sense? Yeah. Like, for instance for instance, that meeting we just had today, I could go into my Copilot and ask what my takeaways were, and it would shoot out a list of my takeaways. It it's pretty pretty slick. And so I think we're gonna end up in this pretty broadly. But, yeah, to your point, it cuts down that licensing. So those are the big areas. We have worked with Eric in marketing a little bit. Scott and I met with his leadership, which is Laurie, a little bit, just so you know the backstory there that he we're not gonna he's really passionate about Gemini now, very passionate about Claude. So we've just shared that, like, I get it. And that's a little bit where the desire to to exempt a little bit of the if you're doing SEO stuff that's publicly available or you're scouring your own website, I don't I don't think as a company, we need to be that enforce. We don't need to enforce what tool you use as long as we we don't wanna pay for it. But Yeah. So we've tried to find that balance. I think we'll continue to find that balance with with him in that department. He's been one that we're having a a bit of a challenge getting to pull into Copilot a bit, but I think we'll get there. And I think, hopefully, offering the class to him will help in that space as well. So just to give you a little background, but those are the three areas we've really hit thus far. 00:23:49 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Awesome. Super helpful. I can definitely help coordinate and then drive home some of the influencing messages that y'all are trying to do. All of them make absolute sense from my perspective. I agree with everything that you said. I think there will be some French cases, and probably Eric and Lori are one of those where Anthropic and Gemini might be, I don't know, maybe better. Would say it would be helpful Can I get access to that training document? Just so I'll spin through that as I'm thinking through the first cohort of people for that training. When would you want to do that training? You mentioned April, May time Yeah. 00:24:43 - [SHAWN_REMICK] We'll probably start in mid April, and we'll run it through mid to late May. That is the vision currently. We're open to ideas. We I'll give you a couple guardrails that we are trying to live by. We're trying to only do it once a week. That way, you get us at a fresh state. Great. And we'll skip a couple weeks probably here and there just to give ourselves a break. Like, we might do it a couple weeks, take a break for a week, do it a couple weeks, take a break. And I'll we'll kinda pick some dates probably and send them to you. In in this current rollout, we've been doing it on Thursday mornings. We will not do it on Thursday mornings for you. We'll do it probably Thursday afternoons. But do you have a day in our in our side of the country, Mondays and Wednesdays are onsite days, so we targeted off premise days. What are your off what are your off premise days? 00:25:39 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Off premise days are usually Mondays and Fridays for most of the group. 00:25:44 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's fine. Maybe we'll I think Monday might not be the best of days. Maybe we'll do it on Fridays then. Like 00:25:54 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] That's the day I had in my mind, actually. Okay. I totally agree with being an offsite day, and a Friday for me is kinda like a catch up day. Much of my team blocks their calendars for internal development and just focus time. 00:26:10 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Okay. It should work. Cool. So we'll look at us we'll look at getting you some Fridays. We'll probably wait until we know how many folks, and then I I've been dividing that by 15 or 20, knowing that not everyone's gonna take the course. We are are aware of that. It is optional. Optional by design. Right? I don't want people to feel like they have to come sit there just to sit there. That's not that doesn't get we want people to feel, but we also want a little bit of encouragement, right, from leadership to to do it. So, yeah, so we'll divide it by 15 or 20, come up with that initial offering. If we, for some reason, ran out, we'll add some more dates at the end. But Yeah. What we found thus far, and I had the document open, and you'll see it when you're in the document. The first page is a dashboard. Here. Right now, we have a completion rate around thirty one percent of people we offered it to, and we'd like to see that come up a little bit. We'd like to see the licensing come up a little bit as well, but we're midway through. We're getting there. 00:27:24 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Yeah. I think we can improve from that point. 00:27:28 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. Just we're also in a weird point because everybody get real busy with Adapt X, and I know that's artificially pushing this down. 00:27:39 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Okay. 00:27:41 - [SHAWN_REMICK] So we we may do when we're done with over there, like, when we're done with this April, May, towards the May, we may then have some dates that are for anybody who wants to catch up, and that might give our folks and your folks some time to be like, oh, I was super busy during the last round. I'll join now. Yeah. 00:28:01 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Great. Cool. Good job making a lot of progress while working on a side hustle. That's become a main hustle for a lot of us. 00:28:11 - [SHAWN_REMICK] I was gonna say, I'm not sure how side it is anymore, but, you know, Scott's smiling there. 00:28:18 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] The Scott and I had talked, but it's been a little bit. We had originally had some people volunteer for kinda like lead innovators and people that want to be kind of on the cutting edge of this. 00:28:33 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yep. 00:28:34 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Are we still planning to kinda leverage those, or are we rethinking now with this training Yep. And approach? 00:28:42 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Good question. We retooled that a bit. Okay. We thought at first we'd roll the training out to those who wanted to be, you know, leaders at this point. I think there are so many people that wanna do it that we just rolled it out to everybody. 00:28:57 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Got it. 00:28:58 - [SHAWN_REMICK] It's moving so fast that the concern has been by the time we got the leaders done and then turn around and did the main the entire like, we're it's evolving so fast that it became so, no, it's all one program now. 00:29:13 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] It's one 00:29:14 - [SHAWN_REMICK] yep. And then after they take the class, I I probably should have stuck this into the original topic. After they take the class, we ask them to send us an email if they want a license. And then we I would say internally screen the emails to make sure that the person who puts it in and we may ask you and Ronnie to kinda be our quarterback on that. Mhmm. And then we buy the licenses in three week increments because we Okay. We do have to go out to Microsoft and purchase them. It is a one year commitment to the organization to buy the license. So what we don't want is a bunch of people to get it for two months and never use it again, and then we end up with a bunch of licenses that we didn't wanna buy. But, ultimately, I'd rather if somebody feels like it could impact their job and their productivity, would rather them try it for a year and and and do it and see where it sits. Sometime towards the end of the year, we hope to be able to track in Copilot any users who are not using the function of the license and be able to reclaim the license. ChatGPT has become very not interested in sharing that information because it's bad for that. 00:30:34 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Curious. How curious. 00:30:36 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. It's one thing I think Claude is doing a little bit better on. However, Copilot has the dashboard, but it's not working yet. So we're working through the why and how to get that, but that is on our radar because we wanna make sure from a financial perspective, we're not just letting licenses sit out, and not get used. 00:30:56 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Makes sense. 00:30:59 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. 00:30:59 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Well, direction sounds great. I are there people that do have multiple licenses, a chat and a Copilot? There are. 00:31:09 - [SHAWN_REMICK] There are, and that is on the radar at some point. Okay. Talk about why. But there is also and in the class, we talk about this. There is actually a reason why you may want both. I'll give you an example. You're the leader of a marketing department. You may wanna use Chad GPT for the creative side of your day day to day work. That's what it's more designed for. And you may wanna use Copilot for budget reviews because it's more conservative in its thinking. And so Yeah. I think there are people who fit into that. A lot of your IT folks and the people who are leading the AI end up with all of them because we wanna learn. And so I think at some point, there will be maybe some deeper enforcement on how we approach that. I think as we also bring on I'll give you an example. As we bring on Shapr, their folks are gonna want everything. They're gonna want Claude, and they're maybe gonna want and so I've kind of floated the idea with Scott that maybe we start a two AI tool credit program where you can have two of any of the tools, but not more than two at the same time. I think we're gonna have to figure out that in the future. We're not there yet, but there is there is some use cases that make sense. There are some use cases that probably and there are certainly I know internally, we have people who are using it more for kitchen recipes with what's in their cupboard than are probably using it with Festool products. But, honestly, at the end of the day, if they're learning how to leverage the technology, I can only hope that bleeds into their work environment, and there's probably synergy there. 00:32:46 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Alright. Well, makes sense. Yeah. Good progress. I will be asking for a Copilot license. My team's kinda been raving about using it. Scott told me, just get off of chat. Start using Copilot. And so I am I've been thinking about that transition. I do use chat just a little more on the creative side, but 00:33:10 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Would you like I can send you the classes for the next two weeks. If you have a Thursday at 1100 available, you are welcome to join now. 00:33:18 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] That would be phenomenal. 00:33:19 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yep. I'll forward you that email. There's only two left, but we have seats. And if you wanna jump in one, in all transparency, Brian and Patty are signed up for one of them. And we've kinda snuck them in early because they're a little bit ahead of the curve on this anyway. And so I would open the same option to you. 00:33:40 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Please. I would love to do that, and that would probably help me just figure out how to communicate some of these messages, coordinate, figure out that list. All of it would be helpful to sit through. 00:33:53 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yep. I will send it over to you. There's one on the twelfth. They're a little early on your schedule. Well 00:34:00 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] It's alright. I start the day early. 00:34:03 - [SHAWN_REMICK] It might it might they would be 0800 your time, I believe. Okay. Double check the link, but it's the twelfth and nineteenth that would be 0800 your time. But I sent you over the email. 00:34:15 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Nineteenth. Okay. I'll join that one on the nineteenth. Cool. Awesome. 00:34:21 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Awesome. Well, thanks for the time. Appreciate it. 00:34:23 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. No. Thanks for bringing me in the loop. We'll we'll take care of that list, like, this week. What I'll probably do on that is just put ones, twos, threes, and zeros. We'll see how many. 00:34:37 - [SHAWN_REMICK] That's fine. 00:34:37 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] I I think I think three three classes might be able to get us through. That'll be about half of our over half of our workforce, which covers pretty much all of our FTEs. 00:34:46 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. If you just wanna put a one on anyone you want to offer it to, we let them sign up for the class. 00:34:53 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Oh, do you? Okay. Perfect. 00:34:54 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yep. So in the email I just sent you, you'll see when we roll this out, whomever you put a one on is gonna get an email from me, and it's gonna list the why, the objectives, and all the classes, and they are responsible for clicking on the course and signing up. That way, it's not just sitting on someone's calendar. Like, it it is a sign up, like a webinar type sign up process. 00:35:18 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Okay. Great. Yep. That keeps it Yeah. 00:35:21 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Good deal. 00:35:22 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Alright. And then, hey, really quick while I got you. Did Ronnie followup with our draft policy or meeting recording? 00:35:35 - [SHAWN_REMICK] I have not seen that. Doesn't ring a bell. 00:35:39 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Alright. 00:35:39 - [SHAWN_REMICK] I'm checking 00:35:40 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Scott, you and I had talked about that one. He's off for the next couple days, but I'll I'll remind him again to make sure to get that over to you. We just put together Paul and Matt were a little just concerned with meetings being recorded. Wanted to make sure to give people some examples and some direction. So we kept it relatively simple. Ended up being a little longer than I thought, but we haven't rolled that out yet pending your guys' kinda stamp of approval. And, hopefully, it's something that you can leverage also. 00:36:18 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. Well, I would agree. And, also, I think we wanna update acceptable use policies at some point in the near future too. 00:36:23 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. That's exactly what Scott said. He thought it would fit in an acceptable use policy, and just to go ahead and see what we come up with, and 00:36:31 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. 00:36:31 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Have it pass it off for you guys for that. 00:36:33 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Yeah. I don't see Yeah. I love it. Email. So Cool. Alright, boss. 00:36:39 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Alright, gentlemen. Thanks. Have a good rest of the day. 00:36:41 - [SHAWN_REMICK] Take care. Yeah. You do the same. Cheers.
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