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Practical perspectives on meeting notes, decisions, customer conversations, research, privacy, and the work that continues after people talk.

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A team organizing a meeting discussion into a decision, an owner, and a next step

workflows

Your Team Isn't Short on Meetings. It's Short on Decisions.

Why meeting discussions become clearer when teams separate ideas, recommendations, decisions, open questions, owners, and next steps.

CoHear Team · 4 min read

Coworkers reviewing AI-generated meeting notes and comparing them with the original discussion

workflows

Can You Trust AI Meeting Notes? Accuracy Limits and a 2-Minute Review Checklist

AI meeting notes can reduce the first round of work, but important decisions, owners, deadlines, and sensitive details still need human review.

CoHear Team · 9 min read

A cross-functional team continuing work from a meeting with notes, laptops, and a shared display

workflows

The Meeting Ended. Why Is Everyone Still Working?

Why the work after a meeting often matters as much as the meeting itself, and how organized recordings can keep decisions useful after the call ends.

CoHear Team · 4 min read

A team organizing a small AI workflow around shared notes, tasks, and a laptop

ai workflows

Before You Build an AI Agent, Make One Small Workflow Reliable

A grounded playbook for making one small AI workflow reliable before adding tools, integrations, or autonomous behavior.

CoHear Team · 4 min read

Editorial scene of a small team around a meeting table with a recording device at the center

workflows

Meeting Recording Policy for Teams: Consent, Access, and Retention (Template Included)

Three rules keep meeting recordings from becoming a trust liability: explicit consent announced at the start, visibility limited to attendees, and a 30-day retention default. Packed into a one-page team brief, reviewed quarterly.

CoHear Team · 6 min read

Editorial scene of a meeting organizer checking the time outside a meeting room with an empty table inside

workflows

Running a Meeting That Doesn't Waste Time: 10 Minutes Before, Just Three Things

Before every meeting, spend ten minutes on three things: lock down a one-sentence outcome, pre-load the materials, and review last week's action items. A three-line agenda keeps a room from scrambling for context and turns every call into the next episode of a serialized story.

CoHear Team · 6 min read

Editorial scene of interviewers reviewing recording-based evaluation notes

Interview Notes That Hold Up: How Hiring Teams Record, Document, and Debrief Fairly

Score interviews on evidence, not vibes: with consent, keep a recording, then log verbatim quotes, grounded concerns, and mapping to three core competencies in fifteen minutes.

CoHear Team · 7 min read

Editorial scene of a remote worker catching up via voice notes and recordings

workflows

Time Zones Aren’t an Excuse: A Practical Guide to Voice Notes and Recordings for Remote Teams

Time zones stop being an excuse when every key discussion leaves an artifact: voice notes with three points, a recording plus one-page recap, and spoken-first drafting for written work.

CoHear Team · 5 min read

product

Support Calls Hold Your Product’s Most Honest Feedback: How to Turn Call Recordings into 3 Types of Product Signals

Support calls are your most honest feedback channel. Turn recorded calls into three product signals—product gaps, docs gaps, and escalation patterns—with a 15-minute weekly review.

CoHear Team · 7 min read

sales

The 10 Minutes Before Hanging Up: Turning Sales Recordings into Verbatim Quotes and Real Next Steps

The ten minutes right after you hang up decide the next deal: pull three verbatim quotes, flag the signal you missed, and define one next step with a date and a trigger.

CoHear Team · 7 min read

Editorial scene of colleagues reviewing a recorded meeting in a relaxed office corner

workflows

It’s Okay If English Isn’t Your First Language: Record Every Meeting and Let AI Help You Review Your Past Self

If English is not your first language, record your meetings and run a three-step review: find what you missed, hear how you show up, and prep three sentences before the next call.

CoHear Team · 7 min read

Editorial scene of colleagues turning a meeting recording into checkable notes at a desk

ai tools

GPT-6 Astra Doesn’t “Listen”: Why Recording Is Still the First Mile of AI Work

GPT-6 Astra is powerful, but its audio modality is Not supported. That makes the first mile of AI work more important, not less: capture, transcribe, structure — then let the model process.

CoHear Team · 7 min read

Warm editorial illustration of a microphone pouring sound waves into three sorting trays, ending in a neat stack of decision cards

product research

Don’t Let Customer Interviews End at “Nice Chat”: 3 Steps to Turn Recordings Into Product Decisions

Interviews that end at “nice chat” change nothing. Record the call, then run a three-step distillation — transcribe, sort into observation/problem/opportunity, cross-check and archive — so quotes become decisions.

CoHear Team · 6 min read

Editorial illustration of a small recording device on a messy meeting table with tangled cables, crumpled papers, and mics

ai tools

Skip the Demo Hype: Take an AI Meeting Assistant to Your Worst Meeting and Test These 5 Failure Points

Demos are polished; your real meetings are not. Run an AI meeting assistant through the meeting you dread most and check five failure points before you pay.

CoHear Team · 7 min read

Editorial evening desk scene with a clock near 5:40 and three mint-colored parking-slot cards holding a check card, a cone, and a folder

workflows

Friday 5:40: My Weekly Report Used to Be Four Empty Words — Here’s What Changed

“Steady progress” says nothing. Park three things into a daily note — what got done, what got stuck, where things live — and let AI draft a weekly report your manager can actually act on.

CoHear Team · 5 min read

Editorial illustration of hands sorting loose meeting notes into four color-coded trays, with three gate columns behind

meetings

Don’t Send Those AI Meeting Notes Yet: Four Piles, Three Gates, and Every Decision Gets an Owner

AI meeting notes look polished — and that is exactly the risk. Before you forward them, sort the discussion into decisions, actions, and open questions, then make sure every decision has an owner.

CoHear Team · 5 min read

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