Most AI for meetings stops at a transcript. steer prepares you with what was promised last time, listens from your computer without joining as a bot, surfaces what matters while people talk, and turns the outcome into notes, tasks, and follow-up.
Video calls and in-room conversations · No bot in the call
Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams are examples, not a compatibility list. If the conversation reaches your computer’s microphone or speakers, steer can capture it.
An AI meeting assistant is software that helps with the work around a meeting: preparing beforehand, capturing and transcribing the conversation, summarizing decisions, and following up afterward. steer does this as part of one work assistant, so the meeting record connects to your notes, to-dos, memory, email, and calendar instead of sitting in a separate tool.
Most of the work around a meeting happens before it starts and after it ends. steer covers all three parts.
Heartbeat · upcoming meeting
Atlas weekly starts in 30 minutes.Maya asked for the revised rollout brief in the last sync. The draft is still on your Focus list.
Before
steer checks your calendar and brings back what was promised last time, with the open to-do beside it.
AI meeting prepLive Atlas weekly
Both blocker owners confirmed this morning.
Onboarding is still the main launch risk.
During
A live transcript with speakers named, and a prompt when an earlier commitment comes up.
AI meeting transcriptionMeeting record
After
A summary, tracked action items with the meeting attached, and a follow-up email drafted for review.
Meeting follow-upThis is one workflow across steer, not a bundle of disconnected products. Each part keeps its own access boundary.
steer records the microphone and speaker audio already on your computer. Nothing joins the meeting, so there is nobody to admit and no extra tile for your customer to wonder about.
Listening steer, on this computer. Nobody new joined the call.
The transcript appears while people talk. Speaker profiles attach familiar voices to names, and a noise filter helps in loud rooms.
Live Transcript
Both blocker owners confirmed this morning.
The onboarding complaint is still the main launch risk.
Before we move on, do we have the revised rollout brief?
When something said now connects to something promised earlier, steer shows one focused suggestion. You decide whether to use it.
Live insight
Bring up the rollout brief.Maya asked for the revision in the May 12 sync. You said you would have it ready before today’s review.
Say now “I have the revised brief ready to share.”
The summary is the start. Decisions become linked notes, action items become to-dos with the meeting attached, and the recap email is drafted and waiting for you.
Summary
Launch readiness: decisions and ownersRollout held until blockers confirm. Maya owns the follow-up.
To-do
Confirm both blocker owners
Source: Atlas weeklyThanks for the time today. Here is what we agreed and what is still open.
Illustrative meeting, speakers, and suggestions. Capture requires audio permissions on your computer. Record only with appropriate participant consent.
The meeting record does not sit in its own app. The same assistant works with your notes, to-dos, and connected accounts.
Before the Atlas weekly, steer surfaces that Maya is still waiting on the revised rollout brief. During the call it transcribes each speaker and, when Maya asks about the brief, reminds you that the draft is ready. Afterward it files the summary, places “Confirm both blocker owners” in the Atlas launch Epic with the meeting attached, and drafts the recap email for your review.
Atlas weekly starts in 30 minutes. Maya asked for the revised rollout brief in the last sync; the draft is still on your Focus list.
Live transcript with Sam, Elena, and Maya identified. One suggestion surfaced: “I have the revised brief ready to share.”
Rollout held until both blocker owners confirm. Onboarding friction remains the main launch risk.
“Confirm both blocker owners” added to the Atlas launch Epic, with the meeting attached.
Recap email drafted for the attendees. Not sent; waiting for your review.
Illustrative output using fictional project details; this is not a customer result or a live run.
A meeting takes an hour; the work around it takes longer. Useful AI for meetings starts before the call, with the commitment you made last time, and continues afterward, with the task and the follow-up email. steer treats the meeting as one stage of the work, which is why the same assistant that transcribes the call can also open the related note, check the Jira issue, or draft the reply.
Many meeting AI products join as a participant: someone has to admit the recorder, and everyone sees an extra tile. steer captures the audio already reaching your computer, so nothing joins and nothing changes for the other attendees. That also makes it work for in-person conversations, where there is no call to join. It does not remove the need for consent, so tell people you are recording.
When you look for the best AI meeting assistant for your team, look past the summary. Ask how capture works, whether speakers are identified by voice, whether you can search past meetings by decision, whether action items become tracked tasks with the source attached, and whether the product can act on the result in your email, calendar, and project systems. An AI meeting tool that only produces a document leaves the follow-through to you.
The handoff stays inspectable from source to result. Every stage names what it received, what changed, and what needs review.
A configured Heartbeat looks ahead on your calendar and compares the event with open to-dos, recent notes, and earlier meetings. When something needs attention it surfaces the open commitment and a practical next step. AI meeting prep describes the full brief.
steer records the microphone and speaker audio already on your computer. Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams are examples, not a compatibility list: a browser call, a desktop meeting app, and a conversation across the table are captured the same way.
The transcript appears as people talk, and speaker profiles help attach familiar voices to their names. AI meeting transcription covers the transcript in detail, including when to review attribution.
Optional live insights track decisions, commitments, risks, and open questions. When earlier context is relevant, steer shows one focused suggestion, such as a promise that is still open, and you choose whether to say it.
steer saves the full speaker transcript and a summary grouped by topic, with decisions, owners, deadlines, and unresolved questions pulled out. A useful part can become its own source-linked note.
Action items become tracked work through meeting notes to tasks, and meeting follow-up prepares the recap email as a draft. Sending, calendar changes, and project-system updates stay separate, reviewed actions.
Install the desktop app. The beta currently runs on macOS.
Grant microphone and system-audio permission so steer can hear both sides of the call.
Join the call in whatever app you use, or sit down in the room. steer captures it from your computer.
The same capture and follow-through, used for different kinds of conversation.
Back-to-back calls with customers, investors, and the team, and a record of who promised what in each one.
A recap drafted from what the customer said, and next steps tracked without retyping them after the call.
Decisions kept with their reasons, and action items that can become reviewed Jira issue proposals.
Client calls on whichever platform the client uses, and workshops held in person.
Interview notes without a recorder in the call. Tell candidates you are recording.
Conversations across a table are captured the same way as a video call.
Connected work still needs accurate sources, explicit destinations, and review where an action changes another person’s system.
Plain explanations, including a comparison that says where other products are the better fit.
An AI meeting assistant helps with the work around a meeting: it prepares context beforehand, captures and transcribes the conversation, summarizes decisions and action items, and helps with the follow-up. steer adds the step most tools leave out, which is acting on the result in your notes, to-dos, email, and calendar. For a longer explanation, read what an AI meeting assistant is and how it works.
No. steer captures audio through your computer’s microphone and speakers, so no bot or extra participant joins the meeting and there is no recorder to admit.
Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams are examples, not limits. Because capture happens on your computer, steer can also cover other browser calls, desktop meeting apps, and in-person conversations.
Check four things: whether a bot has to join the call, whether speakers are identified, whether notes link back to the conversation they came from, and whether action items become tracked work. Then check what happens outside the meeting, because preparation and follow-up are where most of the time goes. Our comparison of eight AI meeting assistants sets the main products side by side.
Yes. Optional live insights track decisions, commitments, and open questions while people talk. When earlier context is relevant, steer can surface one focused suggestion or a line you can say.
steer is in beta and available from the download page. Plans and pricing are not final; the proposed plans are on the pricing page.
steer encrypts stored data at rest with AES-256-GCM and isolates each account cryptographically. The security page explains the access boundaries around connected accounts and device permissions.
Bring the source, the intended result, and the boundaries that matter. steer is in private beta for macOS.
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