I Let an AI Attend My Meetings for a Week — Here's What Happened

Every engineer knows the feeling: it’s 3pm, you’re deep in a debugging session, and the calendar notification pops — a status meeting where your only contribution will be “still working on the auth bug.” Attend Mode was built for exactly this. It lets Gonu Worker join the meeting on your machine, listen, take structured notes, and — if you allow it — answer questions using your project context, while you keep working.

What Attend Mode Actually Does

When you start an Attend session, the agent joins the call through your desktop (Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams), keeps your camera off and mic muted by default, and listens via system audio. In real time it builds a transcript with speaker detection, extracts action items with assignees, and drafts a follow-up summary. Because it runs on yourmachine with access to your project workspace, it can answer questions like “what’s the status of the payments refactor?” from your actual repo and task context — not from a generic model guess.

You stay in control the whole time: a live feed shows everything the agent hears and does, you can chat with it mid-meeting to steer its answers, and the Esc key is an instant kill switch that pulls it out of the call.

A Week of Real Usage

Daily standups are the clearest win. The agent joins, listens to fifteen minutes of updates, and delivers a tight summary with action items — the two minutes you actually needed from the meeting. Status reviews work almost as well; the transcript plus prioritized action items beat most humans’ notes. Deep technical discussions are where you should still show up yourself — the agent transcribes them faithfully, but decisions that need your judgment need you. Attend Mode’s honest pitch is not “never attend a meeting again”; it’s “stop attending the meetings where you were only a pair of ears.”

Use It Responsibly

Two ground rules. First, tell your team — most teams are fine with an AI note-taker (many already use one), but consent matters, and in some jurisdictions recording or transcribing calls without notice is illegal. Second, check your company’s policy on AI tools in meetings before pointing it at anything confidential. Because Gonu Worker runs locally and can use local Ollama models, you can keep transcripts entirely on your machine — which makes the compliance conversation much easier than with cloud transcription services.

How to Set It Up

Install Gonu Worker (free, no account needed to download), sign in, and open Attend Mode from the toolbar. Grant the two permissions it needs on macOS — Screen Recording for system audio and Accessibility for desktop control — pick the meeting, and start the session. Your first standup summary will land before the meeting ends.

Attend Mode is included in the Pro plan (₹499/month) along with the Meeting Bot and KT Mode. The free plan includes meeting intelligence for two meetings a day, so you can try the note-taking before upgrading. For the full picture of what the desktop agent can do, read the meeting intelligence deep dive or see how Gonu Worker compares to other agentic tools.