What Meetings Can Do
An overview of Sarudo's meeting pipeline — transcribe recordings, extract action items and decisions, and track follow-ups.
What This Category Covers
Meetings is the part of Sarudo that turns a recording into a structured outcome. You send your AI employee an audio or video file (or a link to one), and it comes back with a time-stamped transcript, a short summary, a list of action items with assignees and deadlines where it can infer them, a list of decisions the group made, and a list of attendees linked into your CRM. From there you can triage the action items — mark them in-progress or done, add notes, and move on. Everything runs on your dedicated server, so the recording itself never leaves your infrastructure.
Included — no setup needed. Transcription runs on your Sarudo server using faster-whisper (a local, optimized implementation of OpenAI's open-source Whisper model). There is no external transcription service to sign up for, no per-minute transcription bill, and no audio ever sent to a third party.
How This Is Different from Voice Calls
Voice Calls is about phone conversations that Sarudo places on your behalf in real time — outbound calls through Twilio with a Vapi-powered AI voice. Meetings is about recordings that already exist — a Zoom call you recorded, a Google Meet you saved, a Microsoft Teams export, a YouTube video, an MP3 someone sent you. The Voice Calls pipeline generates the recording; the Meetings pipeline consumes one. If your AI employee made a phone call for you, the transcript already lives in the call record (see Voice Calls > How Transcription Works). You only need the Meetings category for recordings that came from somewhere else.
Short form: Voice Calls = outbound phone conversations Sarudo makes. Meetings = pre-existing recordings you send Sarudo to process.
What You Get Back
Every meeting you process yields six outputs. A full time-stamped transcript with speaker labels (Speaker 1, Speaker 2, up to eight speakers — heuristic-based, not biometric). A short summary of the discussion. A list of action items, each with the assignee and deadline when those are inferable from the text. A list of decisions the group explicitly made. A list of key topics ranked by how often they were discussed. And if you provided CRM contact IDs for the attendees, every contact gets a logged meeting activity so the meeting shows up in their CRM history.
Summary of a processed meeting
What a completed meeting looks like.