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PRD: AI-Generated Meeting Summaries with Decisions and Action Items

Audience: Engineering and Design leads Status: Ready for build planning Owner: Product

1. Summary

Huddle records and transcribes meetings with speaker labels, and the attendee list comes from the calendar invite. Today, people write their own notes after calls, and those notes are often late, incomplete, or missing. This feature generates a summary after each meeting that lists the decisions made and assigns action items to attendees. Action items are emailed to their owners, with Sales' requirement for immediate delivery balanced against the accuracy limits described in Section 4.

2. Goals and Non-Goals

Goals - Produce a summary within 5 minutes of meeting end for 95% of meetings. - Every action item names an owner who was present in the meeting. - Every decision and action item links to the transcript moment that supports it. - Give Sales automatic, immediate delivery for high-confidence action items.

Non-Goals (v1) - Calendar write-back or task creation in external tools (Jira, Asana). Design for it, but do not build it. - Summaries for meetings without a transcript. - Sentiment, coaching, or participation analytics.

3. Definitions

• Attendee: A person present in the meeting, determined by the participant session log (the platform's record of who joined), not only by the calendar invite. The calendar invite is a hint, not proof of attendance.
• Identified participant: A participant tied to a Huddle account or a verified email address.
• Unidentified participant: A guest who joined by name only, with no verified identity.
• Action item: A task with an owner, a description, and optionally a due date, derived from transcript content.
• Decision: A statement that the group agreed on a course of action, with supporting transcript evidence.

4. Known Limits and Design Responses

5. Functional Requirements

FR-1: Roster resolution Build the attendee roster from the participant session log at meeting end. Merge in calendar invitees for context, but do not treat invitees who never joined as attendees. Each roster entry is tagged as identified or unidentified.

FR-2: Summary generation Produce a summary containing: - A 3–5 sentence overview. - A decisions list. Each decision has a one-sentence statement, a timestamp, and a transcript link. Decisions are not assigned to individuals unless the transcript clearly states who made them. - An action items list (FR-3).

FR-3: Action item extraction Each action item includes: description, owner (a roster member), due date if stated, timestamp, transcript link, and attribution confidence (high, medium, low).

FR-4: Hard constraint: no non-attendee owners (must-pass) Before any summary is stored or sent, a deterministic validator checks that every action item owner matches a roster entry from FR-1. If an owner does not match, the item is removed and logged as a pipeline error. This check does not depend on the model or on confidence scores. The model is never the final authority on membership.

FR-5: Unidentified owners If the model attributes an action to an unidentified participant, the item is kept, but the owner is shown as "Unidentified participant (Name as joined)." These items are never emailed. They appear in the organizer's review view only.

FR-6: Confidence gating for delivery Each action item is sent automatically only if all of the following are true: - Owner is an identified roster member. - Attribution confidence is high. - The supporting transcript segment has no overlapping speech flag. - The item's source is not a multi-person room device.

Items that fail any check go to the organizer's review queue. The organizer can confirm, reassign to another roster member, or dismiss. Confirmed items are then sent.

FR-7: Multi-person sources When an action item comes from a multi-person source, the owner field is set to "Confirm owner" and the item is held for review. The review UI lets the organizer or the item's likely owner claim it from the roster.

FR-8: Delivery - Auto-sent items go to the owner's email within 5 minutes of meeting end. - Emails contain: the meeting name, the action item, the due date if any, a link to the summary, and a link to the transcript moment. - Each meeting produces one email per owner, grouping that owner's items. - Emails go only to identified roster members. Admins can disable delivery to external email domains.

FR-9: Review queue Organizers see a summary page with held items, can edit or confirm them, and can see which items were auto-sent. Edits made after sending generate a correction email to the owner.

FR-10: Controls and privacy - Admins can turn summaries on or off per workspace and per meeting type. - Any participant can opt out of their own speech being summarized. Their items are excluded from the summary and their name is removed from the roster. - Summaries and transcripts follow the same retention and access rules as the source recording.

6. Sales Requirement: Immediate Auto-Send

Sales wants action items emailed as soon as the meeting ends. This PRD supports that for high-confidence items (FR-6, FR-8). It does not send low-confidence items immediately, because a wrong owner gets a task they didn't agree to, and an email that is later corrected erodes trust. Sales can see the auto-send rate in the admin dashboard. If the held rate is too high for their workflows, the threshold can be tuned with data from the pilot. It should not be lowered without evaluation.

7. Acceptance Criteria

• AC-1: Across a 300-meeting eval set, zero action items name an owner absent from the participant log. This is a hard gate for launch.
• AC-2: Every decision and action item has a working transcript link that lands within 10 seconds of the cited statement.
• AC-3: For a labeled eval set, owner precision on auto-sent items is at least 97%.
• AC-4: Summaries are generated within 5 minutes of meeting end for 95% of meetings with transcripts under 90 minutes.
• AC-5: An uninvited identified joiner appears in the roster and can receive items. An unidentified joiner never receives email.
• AC-6: Opt-out removes the participant's items and name from the output within one processing cycle.

8. Metrics

• Adoption: Percentage of eligible meetings with a summary delivered.
• Quality: Action items edited or reassigned by the organizer, by confidence band.
• Trust: Post-send corrections per 100 auto-sent items. Target: under 2.
• Usage: Percentage of owners who open the linked transcript from an email.

9. Open Questions

1. Should the review queue notify the organizer by email, Slack, or in-app only?
2. When an owner is an external email address, what is the policy under the admin domain setting?
3. How will we handle meetings where the transcript contains no clear owner for a decision or action?
4. Do we need a per-workspace setting to require organizer approval for all items?
5. Should multi-person room devices be fixed at the hardware or SDK level, which would change FR-7?

10. Phasing

• Phase 1 (pilot, 20 workspaces): FR-1 through FR-5, FR-8 through FR-10, with all items held for organizer review. This validates the constraint and attribution quality.
• Phase 2: Enable confidence gating (FR-6) and auto-send for Sales and other pilot workspaces, based on Phase 1 precision data.
• Phase 3: Multi-person source handling at scale (FR-7), and general availability.

Product Requirements Document (PRD): AI-Generated Meeting Summaries & Action Items

1. Document Overview & Objective

1.1 Product Name

Huddle Intelligent Summaries (Internal Codename: Project Cue)

1.2 Target Audience

Engineering Leads, Frontend/Backend Engineers, and Product Designers.

1.3 Objective

Build an automated, post-meeting intelligence feature for Huddle that processes meeting transcripts to extract structured decisions, generate comprehensive summaries, and assign action items to attendees. The feature must account for real-world messy transcript data (speaker errors, uninvited participants) and adhere to strict safety boundaries regarding action item assignments and automated distribution.

1.4 Background & Scenario

Huddle is a video-meeting application currently utilized by 3,000 enterprise and mid-market companies. * Existing Infrastructure: Meetings are automatically recorded and transcribed with basic speaker labeling. Attendee lists are reliably synchronized from the originating calendar invite. * Current State & Pain Point: Users currently rely on manual post-meeting note-taking, leading to dropped tasks, misaligned follow-ups, and fragmented alignment. * Value Proposition: Automating meeting wrap-ups directly inside Huddle saves hours of manual administrative overhead per week⁴, driving higher platform stickiness and daily active use.

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2. Core User Stories & Personas

2.1 Personas

• The Engineering Manager (User): Attends 5–6 back-to-back technical syncs daily. Needs clear, unequivocal records of architectural decisions and precise engineering follow-ups without digging through raw, messy transcripts.
• The Account Executive / Sales Rep (User): Operates on rapid customer cadences. Requires immediate, zero-friction distribution of post-meeting action items to stakeholders without manual typing.
• The Engineering & Design Leads (Builders): Require explicit edge-case handling, system constraints, deterministic UI layouts, and scalable pipeline specs to build and ship the feature efficiently.

2.2 Key User Stories

1. As a meeting participant, I want Huddle to automatically generate a structured summary and action item list the moment a meeting concludes, so I don't have to spend time writing manual recap notes.
2. As an attendee with assigned tasks, I want clear ownership labels on my action items so there is never any ambiguity about who is driving a deliverable.
3. As a sales representative, I want my action items emailed to me automatically as soon as the meeting ends, so I can immediately execute client follow-ups.
4. As a meeting host, I want to review, edit, or override incorrect speaker attributions or bad action assignments before summaries are locked or shared externally.

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3. Detailed Functional Requirements

3.1 Data Inputs & Pre-Processing Pipeline

The AI summarization engine triggers asynchronously via webhook immediately upon meeting termination (`recording.ended`).

• Input A: Transcript with Speaker Labels: Full text payload containing timestamped utterances, text strings, and speaker IDs. Known limitation: Speaker labels suffer from an 8% error rate, primarily caused by cross-talk, overlapping dialogue, or multi-person huddle rooms.
• Input B: Calendar Invite Attendee List: Ground-truth list of officially invited participants (Email, Name, Role).¹ Known limitation: 15% of meetings include an uninvited participant (e.g., ad-hoc joiners via shared link).
• Input C: Meeting Metadata: Duration, title, organization ID, and recording URL.

3.2 Summarization & Extraction Logic (LLM Pipeline)

The backend processing pipeline must execute three logical passes: 1. Meeting Overview Generation: Condense the transcript into a 3–5 sentence executive summary alongside 3 key thematic highlights. 2. Decision Extraction: Isolate explicit agreements, architectural choices, or policy resolutions made during the call. Format as an bulleted list of declarative statements (e.g., "Decided to migrate the primary auth service to OAuth2 by Q3"). 3. Action Item Extraction & Assignment Engine: * Extract explicit tasks, owners, and deadlines. * Crucial Constraint (Safety Guardrail): The engine must never assign an action item to someone who was not present in the meeting. * Resolution Strategy for Uninvited Attendees: If an uninvited participant (who joined without a calendar invite) is identified as the owner of a task, the system must cross-reference their presence against the audio/transcript participant logs. If verified present, they are added to a dynamic "Extended Participants" list for assignment validation. If their identity cannot be verified or they were absent, the task defaults to unassigned or falls back to the meeting host with a UI warning flag².

3.3 Sales Request: Automated Instant Emailing

• Requirement: Sales teams have requested that action items be emailed automatically to their owners the second a meeting ends.
• Product Specification & Guardrail: Due to the 8% speaker label error rate and potential hallucination risks, fully autonomous external emailing on meeting close creates high business risk.
• Implementation Design:
• Implement an Opt-In Workspace Policy configured by organization admins.
• For workspaces with "Auto-Send Sales Recaps" enabled, summaries and assigned action items are dispatched via email to internal organization members immediately upon processing completion.³
• For external participants or non-opt-in workspaces, a 10-minute "Grace Period / Review Window" notification banner appears in the Huddle desktop client, allowing hosts to review and edit assignments before dispatch.

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4. User Experience & Interface (UX/UI) Specifications

4.1 Post-Meeting View (Huddle Web & Desktop App)

Upon meeting conclusion, a new tab labeled "AI Summary" appears alongside the existing "Transcript" and "Recording" tabs within the meeting details drawer.

``` +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Huddle Meeting: Q3 Architecture Sync [Share] [Export]| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tabs: [Overview] [Transcript] [Recording] | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | | The team reviewed the Q3 scaling bottlenecks. Consensus was | | reached on moving auth infrastructure to OAuth2. Database latency | | issues will be mitigated via Redis caching layers. | | | | KEY DECISIONS | | • Migrate core auth service to OAuth2 by August 15. [Edit] | | • Adopt Redis cluster for session state caching. [Edit] | | | | ACTION ITEMS | | [x] Investigate OAuth2 token expiry edge cases | | Owner: Sarah Jenkins (Calendar Invite) | Due: Next Tuesday | | [ ] Set up staging Redis cluster | | Owner: Unassigned ⚠️ (Verify Attendee) | Due: Friday | | | | [Send Sales Recap Email Now] [Approve & Lock] | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ```

4.2 Interactive States & Edge-Case UI Handling

• Unassigned / Unverified Owner State: If the model detects an action item owner who was an uninvited participant or has an ambiguous speaker label, render a yellow warning badge: `⚠️ Unverified Owner — Click to Reassign`.
• Inline Editing: Every decision and action item card features an inline pencil icon allowing hosts or assignees to edit text, change owners via a searchable dropdown of confirmed attendees, or delete hallucinated items.

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5. Technical Architecture & Engineering Guidelines

5.1 Pipeline Flow & Data Schema

1. Webhook Listener: Receives `meeting.ended` event containing metadata and storage URIs.
2. Context Aggregator: Merges calendar invite list (`invitedusers[]`) with actual audio track speaker diarization outputs (`detectedspeakers[]`).
3. LLM Structured Extraction: Prompt engineering optimized for JSON output schema enforcement (using strict JSON mode / function calling):

```json { "meetingid": "string", "summary": "string", "decisions": ["string"], "actionitems": [ { "task": "string", "assigneeemail": "string | null", "assigneename": "string", "isverifiedattendee": boolean, "due_date": "ISO-8601 | null" } ] } ```

5.2 Error Handling & Fallbacks

• Speaker Label Inaccuracy (8% Error Rate): Mitigation via UI feedback loops. If an assignee name has low confidence score (< 0.85) from the diarization model, flag the action item with a review indicator in the UI.
• Uninvited Participant Handling (15% Occurrences): The validation layer must query the roster of active audio streams. If an email is missing from the calendar invite but present in audio metadata, tag them as `guest_participant` and permit assignment only if their voiceprint or explicit self-identification ("Hi, this is Dave from Finance joining late") is logged in the transcript text. Otherwise, fail-safe to unassigned.

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6. Non-Functional Requirements & Constraints

• Latency: Summary generation and database write must complete within < 120 seconds of meeting termination for a standard 45-minute meeting.
• Security & Privacy: Meeting transcripts and summaries must be encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3). Customer data must never be used to train foundational models across tenant boundaries.
• Reliability: 99.9% pipeline uptime. In the event of an LLM timeout or parsing failure, the system must gracefully fall back to displaying raw transcripts with an error banner stating "AI summary generation delayed. Click to retry."

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7. Metrics & Success Criteria (KPIs)

1. Adoption Rate: % of completed meetings where users view, edit, or export the AI summary (Target: > 40% within 30 days post-launch).
2. Action Item Completion Rate: Increase in marked-complete action items compared to legacy manual workflows.
3. Accuracy & Correction Rate: Frequency of manual edits made to action item owners and speaker assignments (Target: < 5% manual override rate, validating low false-positive rates for uninvited attendee checks).
4. Sales Workflow Efficiency: Reduction in post-call administrative turnaround time reported by enterprise sales teams using the automated email dispatch feature.

PRD: AI Meeting Summaries — Decisions & Action Items

Sep 24, 2026 · @Martin Slaney

Summary

We will generate a summary after every recorded Huddle meeting that lists the decisions made and the action items, each with an owner who was verifiably in the meeting. The organizer reviews the summary and sends it in one click; nothing is emailed without that step in v1.

Problem. Today attendees write their own notes after the call. Notes are inconsistent, often missing, and action items lose their owners within a day. We already have what we need to fix this: a recording, a transcript with speaker labels, and the calendar attendee list.

Why this is not trivial. Two of those inputs are unreliable. Speaker labels are wrong about 8% of the time, mostly during crosstalk and when several people share a meeting-room device. About 15% of meetings include someone who joined without a calendar invite. A naive build would misassign owners often enough to lose trust in the first week.

Goals and metrics

The goal is summaries people send without rewriting, with zero actions assigned to non-attendees.

Goals

• Replace manual post-meeting notes for recorded meetings.
• Every action item has a correct owner or is explicitly marked unassigned.
• Get action items to owners within minutes of the meeting ending.

Non-goals (v1)

• Pushing tasks into Jira, Asana or Linear.
• Summaries for unrecorded meetings or live, in-call summaries.
• Improving diarization itself. We design around the 8% error rate, not fix it.

Success metrics

Owner precision is measured from organizer edits plus a weekly labelled sample of 200 meetings.

Users and core flow

The organizer owns the summary; attendees receive it.

• Organizer: reviews, fixes owners, sends. Usually the calendar invite's creator; can hand off to any attendee.
• Action owner: receives their items by email and in the app.
• Other attendees: receive the full summary once sent.

```mermaid flowchart LR A[Meeting ends] --> B[Transcript +<br/>join log ready] B --> C[Build verified<br/>roster] C --> D[Extract decisions<br/>and actions] D --> E[Roster filter +<br/>confidence check] E --> F[Organizer review] F --> G[Send to owners<br/>and attendees] ```

The roster filter runs as deterministic code after the model, never inside the prompt alone.² Target: summary ready for review within 5 minutes of meeting end for meetings up to 90 minutes.

Requirements

An owner can only be chosen from the verified roster: people who actually joined, not people who were invited.

Verified roster

1. R1. Build the roster from the join log, not the calendar invite.¹ Invited people who never joined are excluded. 2. R2. Each roster entry has an identity tier: - Verified: joined signed in to a Huddle account, or by a dial-in matched to a known number. - Guest: joined with a display name only (most of the 15% uninvited joiners). - Room: a meeting-room device; people behind it are unknown individuals. 3. R3. Match uninvited joiners to workspace accounts by signed-in account only. Never match on display name alone.

Summary content

1. R4. Decisions: a short statement of each decision, with a transcript timestamp link. No owner field.
2. R5. Action items: task, owner (or "Unassigned"), due date if said aloud, timestamp link, and confidence.
3. R6. Every item links to its evidence in the transcript so reviewers can check it in one click.

Assignment rules

1. R7. The model returns a proposed owner per item. Code then checks it against the roster. Any owner not on the roster is replaced with "Unassigned", and the named person is shown as a mention ("mentions: Dave, not in meeting").
2. R8. Owner comes from content first: a named request ("Priya, can you…") beats the speaker label of "I'll do it".
3. R9. Mark an owner low confidence when the evidence depends on a speaker label in an overlapping segment, a Room entry, or a Guest entry.
4. R10. Low-confidence items show as "Suggested: Priya" and need organizer confirmation before any email goes out.
5. R11. Room and Guest entries cannot receive email. The organizer can reassign to a verified person or leave it unassigned.
6. R12. Log every model proposal, filter result and organizer edit. This is our precision measurement.

Handling the known limits

Both limits hit ownership, not decisions, so we contain them at the owner step.

The error compounds per meeting. If each item's owner is wrong 8% of the time, a meeting with 5 action items has a 34% chance of at least one wrong owner (1 − 0.92⁵). That is why confirmation sits before email, not after.

Sales request: auto-email on meeting end

Decision: not in v1 as requested. We ship one-click organizer send now, and gated auto-send in phase 2 once measured precision earns it.

Why not now. An email to the wrong owner is the most visible failure this feature can have. With the error rate above, roughly a third of 5-item meetings would email someone a task that isn't theirs. With external guests, it may land outside the customer's company. Early trust is hard to win back.

What Sales gets instead.

• v1: the organizer gets a "Summary ready" notification within 5 minutes and sends with one click. Goal: sent within 30 minutes (see metrics).
• Phase 2: a workspace setting to auto-send at meeting end, but only items that are high confidence and owned by a Verified attendee. Everything else still waits for the organizer. It ships only when owner precision on high-confidence items is ≥ 97% for 4 consecutive weeks.
• Auto-send never emails Guest or Room entries, or anyone outside the customer's domain, unless an admin enables it.

Design notes

The review screen must make checking owners faster than writing notes.

• Decisions first, then action items grouped by owner, then Unassigned.
• Low-confidence owners look visibly different ("Suggested") and are editable inline from a roster picker, never free text.
• Each item plays its transcript clip on click.
• The Send button states who gets email: "Send to 4 owners and 7 attendees".
• Empty state: if no decisions or actions are found, say so plainly rather than inventing any.

Rollout

Open questions

• [ ] Is the join log's signed-in identity reliable enough to call "Verified"? Engineering to confirm.
• [ ] Who organizes when the invite creator didn't attend? Proposed: first Verified attendee from the invite.
• [ ] Do customers need to disable summaries per meeting for sensitive calls? Legal and Sales to confirm.
• [ ] Retention: how long do we keep drafts and the evidence log?