Build a Meeting Assistant Agent
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Overview
Set up an agent that handles the meeting lifecycle—capturing notes, extracting decisions and action items, and routing follow-ups—so the admin around meetings runs itself. This workflow covers designing it with the right human checkpoints.
Best For
- Managers
- Project managers
- Operations leaders
- Anyone in many meetings
Problem
Meetings generate a tail of admin: notes to write up, decisions to record, action items to assign and chase. Done manually it's hours a week and often gets dropped, so decisions and tasks slip through. The work is repetitive and rule-based—exactly the kind of thing that shouldn't need a human doing it from scratch each time.
Solution
A meeting assistant agent can take a transcript and produce the summary, extract decisions and action items with owners, and stage follow-ups—consistently, every time. The design question is where humans stay in the loop: the agent drafts and routes, but you approve anything it sends externally and verify owners before actions go out. That keeps the speed while preventing the agent from confidently misattributing or over-sending.
Workflow Steps
- 1
Decide the agent's scope: summarize only, or also extract actions and stage follow-ups.
- 2
Choose a platform—meeting tools with AI, or an agent connected to your transcript source.
- 3
Instruct it to summarize, extract decisions/actions with owners, and flag anything ambiguous.
- 4
Set the human checkpoint: it drafts follow-ups, you approve before anything is sent externally.
- 5
Test on real transcripts and check attribution accuracy—agents misassign owners.
- 6
Roll out gradually, keeping approval on any outbound message until you trust the accuracy.
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Example Prompt
You are a meeting assistant. Process this meeting and prepare the follow-up. Attendees: [names/roles] Transcript / notes: """ [PASTE TRANSCRIPT] """ Produce: 1. A concise summary 2. Decisions made, each attributed to who made it 3. Action items, each with an owner and due date (mark [TBD] if unclear) 4. Draft follow-up messages for each owner (for my review before sending) 5. Anything ambiguous that I should clarify Do NOT treat follow-ups as sent—present them for my approval. Flag any owner or decision you're inferring rather than certain of.