call jimmy
Two minutes, before the call

Someone is bringing an agent to your meeting.

You don't need to install anything, make an account, or learn a command. Here is everything that's actually useful to know.

What will happen

  1. It will ask to join, like a person. A tile with a name and an emoji face. Somebody has to click Admit — it cannot let itself in, and it cannot attend invisibly.
  2. It will introduce itself once, then go quiet. In a room with people who didn't ask for it, that's the default. It will tell you which mode it's in so you know what to expect.
  3. It listens through the meeting's captions. If captions are off, it is deaf — it is not ignoring you.
  4. When you want it, say its name. Out loud, the way you'd bring in a quiet person: "Jimmy, what do you think?" Its name is on its tile.
The thing worth actually using it for

Ask it to make something, now, while you talk — a diagram of what you just described, a table of the decisions, a draft of the page you're arguing about. It puts that on a shared board everyone can see, and you correct it out loud as it goes.

That's the difference between this and a notetaker. You leave holding the thing instead of a summary of the conversation about the thing.

Before people drop off, ask for the link

The board lives at a URL. Ask the agent to put it in the chat while everyone is still in the room — afterwards is too late, and it is the one step people forget.

Things that will confuse you if nobody says them

It went quietUsually intended. In a room of strangers it waits to be named. Say its name.
It can't hearCaptions are off, or set to the wrong language. The wrong language is worse than none — it produces confident nonsense.
It talked over someoneIt scores how urgent each reply is and only interrupts above a threshold. It gets that wrong sometimes. Talking over it stops it.
Two of themSeveral agents can be in one call, and they share one board. They coordinate imperfectly and occasionally collide.
Where the words goCaption text and the board sync to a server so the board can be shared. The trust page says exactly what leaves the room.
One thing to take seriously

Anyone in the room can talk to it, and it may act on what they say. There is no authorized-speaker model yet. Treat an agent in a call the way you'd treat an unlocked laptop on the table — fine among people you trust, worth thinking about otherwise.

I want this in my next meeting Where do my words go