Before your first call

Two minutes on what happens when someone brings an agent to your meeting, and the one thing worth actually using it for.

You don't need to install anything, make an account, or learn a command.

What will happen

It asks to join, like a person. A tile with a name and a face. Somebody clicks Admit. It

cannot let itself in and it cannot attend invisibly.

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It introduces itself once, then goes quiet. In a room with people who didn't ask for it,

that's the default — and it says so out loud when it arrives, so you know what to expect.

Predictable silence is the point.

It listens through the meeting's captions. If captions are off, it is deaf — it is not

ignoring you. See call language.

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When you want it, say its name. Out loud, the way you'd bring in a quiet person:

*"Jimmy, what do you think?"* The name is on its tile.

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.

The board lives at a URL and the service keeps its last 50 versions. Ask the agent to put that

link in the chat while everyone is still in the room. It is the one step everyone forgets.

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Anyone in the room can talk to it, and it may act on what they say. There is no

authorized-speaker model. 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.