What is Read AI?
Quick answer
Read AI is an AI meeting assistant that joins your Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams calls and produces a Meeting Report for each one: a summary, action items, a transcript, playback and engagement measures. It can also search across your meetings, email and chat.
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Why it matters for a small business
For a busy office the value is the Meeting Report that lands after every call. Instead of someone typing up notes, the report already has the summary and the action items, and you can share it with a person as viewer or editor, send it to Slack, or download the report and transcript. Its help center shows two ways in: connect your calendar so the Read Assistant joins chosen meetings automatically, or click Add to live meeting and paste the meeting link.
Read AI also goes beyond single meetings. Search Copilot and Ask Read answer questions across your meetings and connected apps, and Speaker Coach gives feedback on how you run a call. Its site lists connections to Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, Jira, Confluence, Asana, Google Drive and Zapier. Read AI lists a free tier with a monthly number of meetings, and no credit card to start.
In a real lesson: Summarize a Meeting Transcript with ChatGPT
The Summarize a Meeting Transcript lesson teaches what a good meeting summary must hold: a short summary, the decisions, an action items table with an owner and a due date for every task, the open questions, and a follow-up email.
Use it as the checklist for a Read AI Meeting Report. Before you share the report outside the team, make sure every action item has a named owner and a date, and that nothing in the summary was a suggestion someone floated rather than a decision the room made.
Try this lesson free or read the step-by-step guide.
Common confusions
Meeting Report vs transcript
The meeting transcript is every word. The Meeting Report wraps it with a summary, action items, playback and engagement data.
Read Assistant vs a bot-free recorder
Read AI's assistant joins the call as a participant, so the host has to admit it. Tools that record from your own computer show nothing in the meeting.
Tips
- Choose which meetings it auto-joins, such as only the ones you host.
- Tell attendees before the assistant joins.
- Share reports as viewer unless someone really needs to edit.
Related terms
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Where you use it: free lessons
- Summarize a Meeting Transcript with ChatGPT (ChatGPT, 9 min)
AI tools that use it
Frequently asked questions
- How do I add Read AI to a meeting?
- Connect your calendar and turn on Add Read? for the meeting, or click Add to live meeting in Read AI and paste the meeting link. The host then admits Read in the call.
- Is Read AI free?
- Read AI lists a free tier with a set number of meetings a month and no credit card needed. Check read.ai for current limits.
- Can I share a Read AI report?
- Yes. Open the report, click Share, add a name or email, choose viewer or editor, and click Share. You can also send it to Slack or download it.