Hello HN, I am Antoine and with my cofounder Alberto, we got sick of how many meetings we had to attend. So we started interviewing hundreds of team lead, PM’s, CSM’s and tried to understand why they spend so much time in meetings.

We boiled it down to three problems:

- Bad meeting culture, i.e. not having an agenda, goals, or timekeeping, leading to boring meetings with low engagement.

- No meeting documentation, leading to action items and decisions being forgotten and endlessly discussed.

- Convoluted company structures, leading to a lot of status updates and information choke points.

We iterated on designs to solve each problem and finally presented 3 in our PH launch last month.

- A meeting facilitator, keeping time and agenda.

- A meeting notetaker, writing action items and meeting summaries.

- A “silo destroyer”, answering any question about previous meetings in the organization.

To our surprise, over 60% of the people were most excited about the meeting notetaker. We thought those functions were probably already well done by otter.ai, fireflies.ai and co. (turns out, no. (don’t get me started on how terrible of an experience these meeting bots are))

So we built an extension for google meet, with clear action items, decisions, and summaries that are time-linked to the transcript and audio. (you can try it here: https://rb.gy/1khoq)

Basically, I’d like to know your concerns with using such a tool and who you’d need to convince to start using it.