Groundnote blog

Notes on meeting accountability, decisions, and governance

Longer-form writing that complements the knowledge centre guides — commentary, worked examples, and practical tests for meeting accountability practice. New posts are added periodically.

Latest posts

Text Voice to Text: How It Works and What to Look For

Learn how voice-to-text transcription works, which features matter, and how to review meeting transcripts before acting on decisions and tasks.

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Virtual meeting etiquette: a practical guide

Cameras and mute buttons are the easy part. The etiquette that actually determines whether a meeting produces anything: naming owners out loud, asking for an explicit yes, and not letting unresolved items quietly vanish.

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Why "confirmed by AI" isn't the same as confirmed

High confidence in a transcript is not the same as a person agreeing to own the action. Why the two get conflated, and how to keep them visibly separate.

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The steering committee test: is your meeting actually working?

Three questions to ask right after a recurring meeting ends, and what the answers reveal about whether it's producing a real record.

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Picking a meeting AI tool: the questions that actually matter

Feature lists make every meeting AI vendor look the same. The three questions that actually separate them, and where to check each answer.

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