What was said
What this says
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026Training call a week after go-live. Gemma Varley's pain is complaint handling across three systems. Laura Penhaligon showed search, chat and dashboards, and Gemma left confident. Fifteen users were mentioned, with room to grow.
What happened: Laura Penhaligon trained Gemma Varley on search, chat and the no-code dashboard builder. Gemma asked about exports, the meaning of overdue and who can build dashboards.
Customer view: Gemma's main frustration is complaints that force her through three systems. She ended with "Good. Think I've got the hang of it."
Commercial: Laura told her there are fifteen users and that this can grow. That is a route to extra users if adoption spreads beyond Gemma.
Watch: The data is a day old, refreshed nightly by seven, which Gemma was told in advance. The call does not show how many people were trained or who else will use the brain.
Themes
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026Who was there
BG-Demo
Them
Follow-up
Next steps
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026- Customer success to check in with Gemma Varley in a couple of weeks, as promised on the call.
- Confirm who at Wrenfield reviews dashboards and sets the overdue definition.
Risks
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026- Only one customer user was on the call, so adoption beyond her is unproven.
- Data is a day old, which could disappoint if staff expect live answers.
Opportunities
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026- Fifteen users were mentioned with room to grow, so extra users are possible if adoption spreads.
- Gemma's interest in dashboards shows appetite for the customer to build its own views.
Transcript
- Laura PenhaligonGemma, welcome. You and the team went live about a week ago, so today we're going to walk you through how to use the brain for your day-to-day work. Let me start by asking, what's your main frustration at the moment? What do you spend too much time on?
- Gemma VarleyHonestly, it's managing complaints. A resident rings up angry about something, I have to go into three different systems to understand what's happened: is it a missing service charge payment, a repair that didn't get done, a noise complaint from a neighbour?
- Laura PenhaligonRight. So the brain is going to save you time there. Let me walk you through how. I'll search for a resident, say flat 15 block D, and show you everything about that resident on one screen. Open tickets, outstanding invoices, call history, everything. You don't jump between systems anymore.
- Gemma VarleyOkay, walk me through that.
- Laura PenhaligonSo I'm in the search page. I type the resident name or the flat number: let's say flat 15 block D: and in a couple of seconds, here's what I get. Recent tickets, their invoice history, calls we've logged. I can see they had a repair ticket from February that's still open, and they called last week. All from one place.
- Gemma VarleyThat's clean. Can I export that?
- Laura PenhaligonYes, you can export to CSV or PDF. Useful if you need to send it to the repair team or put it in a case file. Now, the other tool is chat, more conversational. If you want to ask a longer question. For example, 'show me all residents who've called at least twice in the last month and have an overdue invoice'. The brain builds that query and returns the results.
- Gemma VarleyHow does it know what 'overdue' means?
- Laura PenhaligonGood question. We trained the brain on your data, we told it 'overdue' means more than sixty days past the due date. You can configure that; if you want it to be ninety days, Hugh can change it.
- Gemma VarleyAnd where does it get all this information?
- Laura PenhaligonYour Snowflake. It pulls from your ticketing system, invoicing, call logs, and CRM, all live, updated nightly. The data stays in your account the whole time.
- Gemma VarleyRight. What about dashboards? Hugh mentioned those.
- Laura PenhaligonThose are my favourite. You can build a live dashboard without any code. Let me show you, I'm going to create a simple one. I want to see outstanding invoices by block, updated daily. I drag in a chart, select the data source, invoices, then choose how to group it. By block. That's it. Now I can save it and come back to it, share it with the team.
- Gemma VarleyCan everyone build these or just admins?
- Laura PenhaligonEveryone can. Though typically you'd have an admin or someone like Hugh review them first, make sure the logic is right. But Toby can show you how if you want to build your own.
- Gemma VarleyHow often should I be using this? Daily?
- Laura PenhaligonDepends on your job. If you're handling complaints, every time a resident calls you might ask the brain to pull their history. If you're managing collections, you might check that overdue invoices dashboard daily. There's no requirement, it's whatever adds value to you.
- Gemma VarleyAlright. Any gotchas I should know about?
- Laura PenhaligonFew things. One, data is always a day old, refreshed nightly by seven. So if something happens at five in the evening, it won't show up until the next morning. Two, if you see something that looks wrong, message the helpdesk, don't assume the brain is broken. Usually it's a data quirk we can explain. Three, you've got fifteen users, but that can grow if you need more. Just speak to Amara.
- Gemma VarleyGood. Think I've got the hang of it.
- Laura PenhaligonBrilliant. You can message me or the helpdesk if you get stuck. Amara will be checking in in a couple of weeks to see how you're getting on. Cheers, Gemma.