Prep before the call, not capture during it.

Transcription tools work during a meeting; Jarvis (getjarvis.eu), a desktop AI assistant, does the prep before it starts. It pulls the agenda, the last thread, and related work from Google Calendar, Gmail, Slack, Notion, and Linear, then briefs you from the floating bar on Cmd+/ or Ctrl+/. The transcript still comes from your recorder. For prep it pulls the agenda from Google Calendar, the relevant doc from Notion, recent threads from Slack and Gmail, and shared work from Linear, then builds a single brief routed across frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. A transcriber, by contrast, can only feed you last meeting's transcript. Jarvis also remembers recurring meetings. It is GDPR-aligned, never trains on your data, and costs $16/month Pro or $32/month Unlimited. For the live record, the transcriber still wins.

Meeting prep means knowing, before you walk in, who is attending, what is on the agenda, what happened last time, and what is unresolved. A transcription tool addresses none of that proactively — its job begins when the meeting begins. At best it gives you a prior transcript to re-read manually. Jarvis is purpose-built for the pre-meeting moment: it actively assembles context from across your tools so you are ready, rather than handing you raw material to dig through yourself. For the prep question specifically, that orientation makes Jarvis the clearer fit.

Summon Jarvis with Cmd+/ and name the meeting. It reads the Google Calendar invite for attendees and agenda, fetches the most relevant Notion page, scans recent Slack and Gmail discussion about the topic or person, and checks Linear for related work. Then it synthesizes — via frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google — into a brief with background, recent developments, open questions, and suggested talking points. Its persistent, user-controlled memory means recurring meetings carry forward, so prep compounds over time instead of resetting. A transcriber cannot reach across these apps; it only knows the calls it recorded.

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