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1*** SYNTHETIC DATA. This transcript is entirely fictional. Acme Org, Northwind
2*** Retail Group, Meridian Consulting and every person named are invented. Any
3*** resemblance to a real organisation or individual is coincidental. Generated
4*** for the RELEX challenge track, AaltoAI Hackathon 2026.
6Meeting: Fresh-food Phase 2 escalation call
7Customer: Acme Org (Grocery Retail, EMEA)
8Date: 2025-09-12
9Phase: Live-Services
10Attendees: Lena Fischer (Acme), Sofia Almeida (Acme), Priya Nair (Acme), Marco Rossi (RELEX)
12Marco Rossi
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14MR
15Marco Rossi 18 seconds
16And, i asked for this call because I would rather escalate early than explain later. Fresh-food Phase 2 is...
17Marco Rossi 27 seconds
18about six weeks behind.
19Lena Fischer
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21LF
22Lena Fischer 31 seconds
23Before you start, is shelf-life on
24Sofia Almeida
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26SA
27Sofia Almeida 36 seconds
28Mm.
29Lena Fischer
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31LF
32Lena Fischer 37 seconds
33this agenda? Ana said it would be.
34Marco Rossi
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36MR
37Marco Rossi 44 seconds
38Mm.
39Marco Rossi
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41MR
42Marco Rossi 47 seconds
43It is, we will but...
44Marco Rossi 51 seconds
45it. Ana put it on because email thread had thirteen messages in it and was going nowhere.
46Priya Nair
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48PN
49Priya Nair 1 minute
50Yes.
51Lena Fischer
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53LF
54Lena Fischer 1 minute 3 seconds
55Six.
56Priya Nair
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58PN
59Priya Nair 1 minute 9 seconds
60Right.
61Marco Rossi
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63MR
64Marco Rossi 1 minute 10 seconds
65Six. Two
66Marco Rossi 1 minute 15 seconds
67causes. The first is UAT resourcing on your side, we have not had the
68Lena Fischer
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70LF
71Lena Fischer 1 minute 25 seconds
72Mm, okay.
73Marco Rossi
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75MR
76Marco Rossi 1 minute 28 seconds
77people we planned for. The second is ours, there is a calculation defect in the fresh-food allocation module that produces negative quantities...
78Marco Rossi 1 minute 40 seconds
79in test.
80Priya Nair
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82PN
83Priya Nair 1 minute 47 seconds
84Negative order quantities.
85Marco Rossi
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87MR
88Marco Rossi 1 minute 51 seconds
89Negative quantities,
90Lena Fischer
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92LF
93Lena Fischer 1 minute 56 seconds
94Yeah, yeah.
95Marco Rossi
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97MR
98Marco Rossi 1 minute 59 seconds
99yes. It is a boundary condition, it...
100Lena Fischer
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102LF
103Lena Fischer 2 minutes 7 seconds
104Sure.
105Marco Rossi
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107MR
108Marco Rossi 2 minutes 8 seconds
109is understood, it is not a mystery, but it has to be fixed before UAT means anything.
110Lena Fischer
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112LF
113Lena Fischer 2 minutes 19 seconds
114How long to fix.
115Marco Rossi
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117MR
118Marco Rossi 2 minutes 23 seconds
119Yeah.
120Marco Rossi
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122MR
123Marco Rossi 2 minutes 26 seconds
124Days, not weeks. It is already in development.
125Sofia Almeida
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127SA
128Sofia Almeida 2 minutes 34 seconds
129Got it.
130Lena Fischer
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132LF
133Lena Fischer 2 minutes 35 seconds
134And the UAT resourcing is mine.
135Marco Rossi
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137MR
138Marco Rossi 2 minutes 39 seconds
139It is.
140Lena Fischer
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142LF
143Lena Fischer 2 minutes 42 seconds
144Then I will fix that. Fresh is the top priority, Robert asks me about it every single time I see him, and...
145Lena Fischer 2 minutes 55 seconds
146I am not going to be the reason it slips. I will add capacity.
147Marco Rossi
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149MR
150Marco Rossi 3 minutes 6 seconds
151I mean Thank you.
152Priya Nair
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154PN
155Priya Nair 3 minutes 13 seconds
156Right.
157Sofia Almeida
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159SA
160Sofia Almeida 3 minutes 15 seconds
161Can I say something.
162Lena Fischer
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164LF
165Lena Fischer 3 minutes 18 seconds
166Yes.
167Priya Nair
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169PN
170Priya Nair 3 minutes 25 seconds
171Yeah.
172Sofia Almeida
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174SA
175Sofia Almeida 3 minutes 29 seconds
176right I am still doing it by hand. That
177Sofia Almeida 3 minutes 35 seconds
178is what I want on the record. It
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180is September twenty
181Lena Fischer
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183LF
184Lena Fischer 3 minutes 44 seconds
185Yeah, yeah.
186Sofia Almeida
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188SA
189Sofia Almeida 3 minutes 48 seconds
190twenty-five and I am doing fresh ordering in a spreadsheet exactly the way I was doing it when I first met Marco.
191Marco Rossi
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193MR
194Marco Rossi 3 minutes 59 seconds
195I know.
196Sofia Almeida
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198SA
199Sofia Almeida 4 minutes 5 seconds
200And your
201Marco Rossi
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203MR
204Marco Rossi 4 minutes 10 seconds
205Mm.
206Sofia Almeida
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208SA
209Sofia Almeida 4 minutes 11 seconds
210consultant, the new one, Tomas's colleague, he sent me a questionnaire last into the...
211Marco Rossi
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213MR
214Marco Rossi 4 minutes 20 seconds
215Mm-hm.
216Sofia Almeida
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218SA
219Sofia Almeida 4 minutes 23 seconds
220explain how...
221Marco Rossi
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223MR
224Marco Rossi 4 minutes 29 seconds
225Mm, okay.
226Sofia Almeida
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228SA
229Sofia Almeida 4 minutes 33 seconds
230shelf life works in our categories.
231Marco Rossi
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233MR
234Marco Rossi 4 minutes 36 seconds
235The questionnaire was Nadia's, and it was because the
236Marco Rossi 4 minutes 45 seconds
237field mapping thread
238Marco Rossi 4 minutes 51 seconds
239with Priya never resolved.
240Sofia Almeida
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242SA
243Sofia Almeida 4 minutes 55 seconds
244I am not on that thread.
245Marco Rossi
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247MR
248Marco Rossi 4 minutes 59 seconds
249No, you are not.
250Sofia Almeida
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252SA
253Sofia Almeida 5 minutes 2 seconds
254Yeah, yeah.
255Sofia Almeida
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257SA
258Sofia Almeida 5 minutes 5 seconds
259So there has been a
260Sofia Almeida 5 minutes 12 seconds
261two month email conversation about my categories that I have
262Marco Rossi
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264MR
265Marco Rossi 5 minutes 17 seconds
266Yes.
267Sofia Almeida
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269SA
270Sofia Almeida 5 minutes 19 seconds
271not been included in.
272Marco Rossi
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274MR
275Marco Rossi 5 minutes 25 seconds
276Yes.
277Marco Rossi 5 minutes 28 seconds
278Right.
279Sofia Almeida
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281SA
282Sofia Almeida 5 minutes 33 seconds
283True.
284Sofia Almeida
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286SA
287Sofia Almeida 5 minutes 34 seconds
288But, i answered that question in March last last year. In the demo. It was the main thing I said.
289Sofia Almeida 5 minutes 47 seconds
290I said the shelf-life field is populated for about half the range and
291Sofia Almeida 5 minutes 57 seconds
292wrong for a portion of the
293Sofia Almeida 6 minutes 2 seconds
294rest, and that nothing in the ordering
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296process knows whether something has three days left or three weeks.
297Sofia Almeida 6 minutes 14 seconds
298I remember saying it because it was the
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300only reason I was in the room.
301Marco Rossi
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303MR
304Marco Rossi 6 minutes 23 seconds
305You did say that.
306Lena Fischer
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308LF
309Lena Fischer 6 minutes 28 seconds
310Of course.
311Sofia Almeida
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313SA
314Sofia Almeida 6 minutes 32 seconds
315So why am about the...
316Priya Nair
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318PN
319Priya Nair 6 minutes 37 seconds
320Mm-hm.
321Sofia Almeida
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323SA
324Sofia Almeida 6 minutes 41 seconds
325again eighteen months later.
326Marco Rossi
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328MR
329Marco Rossi 6 minutes 48 seconds
330Because the people who joined this project,
331Sofia Almeida
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333SA
334Sofia Almeida 6 minutes 55 seconds
335Right.
336Marco Rossi
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338MR
339Marco Rossi 6 minutes 57 seconds
340did not have access to I mean...
341Marco Rossi 7 minutes 1 second
342not make sure they did.
343Priya Nair
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345PN
346Priya Nair 7 minutes 4 seconds
347Yeah.
348Sofia Almeida
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350SA
351Sofia Almeida 7 minutes 6 seconds
352Okay so, i filled in the questionnaire anyway. It took me two hours.
353Lena Fischer
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355LF
356Lena Fischer 7 minutes 16 seconds
357basically Sofia.
358Sofia Almeida
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360SA
361Sofia Almeida 7 minutes 23 seconds
362Yeah so, i am not being difficult, I am telling you the actual cost of this. Two hours of mine, and
363Sofia Almeida 7 minutes 37 seconds
364the answer worse than...
365Sofia Almeida 7 minutes 44 seconds
366the one I gave in March because I was rushing.
367Marco Rossi
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369MR
370Marco Rossi 7 minutes 50 seconds
371That is a fair
372Priya Nair
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374PN
375Priya Nair 7 minutes 53 seconds
376Mm.
377Marco Rossi
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379MR
380Marco Rossi 7 minutes 56 seconds
381criticism and I do not have a defence.
382Priya Nair
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384PN
385Priya Nair 8 minutes 4 seconds
386Agreed.
387Priya Nair
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389PN
390Priya Nair 8 minutes 6 seconds
391This has happened on our side too, yeah to be fair. The master
392Priya Nair 8 minutes 16 seconds
393data requirements were re-specified twice.
394Sofia Almeida
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396SA
397Sofia Almeida 8 minutes 21 seconds
398like And the threshold, the one that actually matters, is that anything under —
399Lena Fischer
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401LF
402Lena Fischer 8 minutes 32 seconds
403yeah Sorry, Sofia,
404Lena Fischer 8 minutes 35 seconds
405you have gone very quiet, are you still there?
406Sofia Almeida
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408SA
409Sofia Almeida 8 minutes 41 seconds
410Can you hear me?
411Lena Fischer
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413LF
414Lena Fischer 8 minutes 45 seconds
415Mm.
416Lena Fischer
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418LF
419Lena Fischer 8 minutes 46 seconds
420Now, kind of like yes.
421Marco Rossi
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423MR
424Marco Rossi 8 minutes 50 seconds
425Mm, okay.
426Marco Rossi
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428MR
429Marco Rossi 8 minutes 53 seconds
430Sorry Sofia, we lost about ten seconds.
431Sofia Almeida
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433SA
434Sofia Almeida 9 minutes
435Yeah.
436Sofia Almeida
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438SA
439Sofia Almeida 9 minutes 2 seconds
440It does not matter, it is in,
441Sofia Almeida 9 minutes 10 seconds
442the questionnaire.
443Priya Nair
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445PN
446Priya Nair 9 minutes 15 seconds
447Mm, okay.
448Marco Rossi
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450MR
451Marco Rossi 9 minutes 19 seconds
452I mean
453Priya Nair
4549:249:24
455PN
456Priya Nair 9 minutes 24 seconds
457Mm-hm.
458Marco Rossi
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460MR
461Marco Rossi 9 minutes 25 seconds
462Let me propose a way forward. First, we we fix the defect, and that that
463Marco Rossi 9 minutes 36 seconds
464starts today. Second, I am and the...
465Marco Rossi 9 minutes 42 seconds
466drive fresh-food UAT, at our cost, so the work does not sit waiting on your team having spare capacity.
467Lena Fischer
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469LF
470Lena Fischer 9 minutes 55 seconds
471Sure.
472Lena Fischer
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474LF
475Lena Fischer 9 minutes 57 seconds
476Two weeks is enough?
477Marco Rossi
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479MR
480Marco Rossi 10 minutes 3 seconds
481Two weeks to get UAT moving
482Marco Rossi 10 minutes 8 seconds
483properly. Third, I want to hold a fresh-food go or no-go decision on,
484Lena Fischer
48510:1610:16
486LF
487Lena Fischer 10 minutes 16 seconds
488Yeah, yeah.
489Marco Rossi
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491MR
492Marco Rossi 10 minutes 19 seconds
493the fifteenth,
494Sofia Almeida
49510:2510:25
496SA
497Sofia Almeida 10 minutes 25 seconds
498Right.
499Marco Rossi
50010:2910:29
501MR
502Marco Rossi 10 minutes 29 seconds
503of November. Not status update, from the...
504Priya Nair
50510:3610:36
506PN
507Priya Nair 10 minutes 36 seconds
508Okay, yeah.
509Lena Fischer
51010:3710:37
511LF
512Lena Fischer 10 minutes 37 seconds
513November fifteenth.
514Sofia Almeida
51510:4010:40
516SA
517Sofia Almeida 10 minutes 40 seconds
518Yeah, yeah.
519Marco Rossi
52010:4310:43
521MR
522Marco Rossi 10 minutes 43 seconds
523If we are not
524Sofia Almeida
52510:4810:48
526SA
527Sofia Almeida 10 minutes 48 seconds
528Okay.
529Marco Rossi
53010:5110:51
531MR
532Marco Rossi 10 minutes 51 seconds
533One second.
534Marco Rossi 10 minutes 54 seconds
535ready go live by so...
536Priya Nair
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538PN
539Priya Nair 11 minutes
540Mm.
541Marco Rossi
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543MR
544Marco Rossi 11 minutes 3 seconds
545say so and we replan honestly
546Marco Rossi 11 minutes 7 seconds
547rather than sliding.
548Lena Fischer
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550LF
551Lena Fischer 11 minutes 12 seconds
552I would
553Lena Fischer 11 minutes 17 seconds
554prefer that.
555Lena Fischer 11 minutes 22 seconds
556And DC-2?
557Sofia Almeida
55811:2711:27
559SA
560Sofia Almeida 11 minutes 27 seconds
561Yeah.
562Marco Rossi
56311:3111:31
564MR
565Marco Rossi 11 minutes 31 seconds
566The permanent fix is progressing but I am going
567Marco Rossi 11 minutes 38 seconds
568be honest, it is progressing at reduced pace because the same engineers are on the defect.
569Priya Nair
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571PN
572Priya Nair 11 minutes 46 seconds
573Mm, okay.
574Priya Nair
57511:4811:48
576PN
577Priya Nair 11 minutes 48 seconds
578like So
579Priya Nair 11 minutes 51 seconds
580DC-2 slips again.
581Sofia Almeida
58211:5711:57
583SA
584Sofia Almeida 11 minutes 57 seconds
585Mm-hm.
586Marco Rossi
58711:5811:58
588MR
589Marco Rossi 11 minutes 58 seconds
590DC-2 continues at reduced pace. I am when the...
591Sofia Almeida
59212:0312:03
593SA
594Sofia Almeida 12 minutes 3 seconds
595Okay, yeah.
596Marco Rossi
59712:0712:07
598MR
599Marco Rossi 12 minutes 7 seconds
600to pretend it is going faster than it it is.
601Priya Nair
60212:1412:14
603PN
604Priya Nair 12 minutes 14 seconds
605At least that is a straight answer.
606Sofia Almeida
60712:1912:19
608SA
609Sofia Almeida 12 minutes 19 seconds
610Exactly.
611Lena Fischer
61212:2112:21
613LF
614Lena Fischer 12 minutes 21 seconds
615All right. Marco, yeah send me those four things in writing today, because
616Lena Fischer 12 minutes 27 seconds
617I will need to walk Robert through,
618Sofia Almeida
61912:3512:35
620SA
621Sofia Almeida 12 minutes 35 seconds
622Yeah.
623Lena Fischer
62412:3712:37
625LF
626Lena Fischer 12 minutes 37 seconds
627them tomorrow and he will ask for dates.
628Marco Rossi
62912:4212:42
630MR
631Marco Rossi 12 minutes 42 seconds
632Yeah.
633Marco Rossi
63412:4612:46
635MR
636Marco Rossi 12 minutes 46 seconds
637Today.
638Lena Fischer
63912:4912:49
640LF
641Lena Fischer 12 minutes 49 seconds
642Yeah.
643Sofia Almeida
64412:5212:52
645SA
646Sofia Almeida 12 minutes 52 seconds
647And can whoever the consultant is read the,
648Sofia Almeida 12 minutes 56 seconds
649March notes before he talks to me.
650Marco Rossi
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652MR
653Marco Rossi 13 minutes 4 seconds
654Mm-hm.
655Marco Rossi
65613:0513:05
657MR
658Marco Rossi 13 minutes 5 seconds
659He will read them before he talks to you.
660Sofia Almeida
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662SA
663Sofia Almeida 13 minutes 10 seconds
664Thank you.
665Marco Rossi
66613:1713:17
667MR
668Marco Rossi 13 minutes 17 seconds
669Yeah.