--- title: "How It Works — In Parallel" description: "See how In Parallel joins your meetings, captures decisions, and keeps your workspace pages current. Before, during, and after every meeting." url: https://www.in-parallel.com/how-it-works --- How it works # It listens. It updates. You move forward. Most of what gets lost between meetings isn't forgotten — it just never had anywhere to go. In Parallel gives it somewhere to go. In short In Parallel joins your Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet calls from your calendar as a named participant, with nothing for attendees to install. It captures decisions, commitments, risks and open questions as they happen, sends a summary when the call ends, and feeds every signal into your shared context and the workspace pages it touches. No setup, no behaviour change ## Your team runs meetings exactly as they always have. Connect your calendar once. In Parallel joins as a named participant and quietly does its job. No plugin, no app to install, no training session. The people in the meeting don't change a thing — and neither do you. - Works with whatever your team already uses — Zoom, Teams, Meet - Invite once. It shows up for every meeting that follows. - You decide what gets captured — nothing runs without your say - No recording banner. No awkward pause. The conversation stays natural. Capture inactive Capture active Meeting preparation brief — sent 30 minutes before the meeting AI chat on the meeting brief 30 minutes before ## Walk in knowing everything that matters. No more opening four tabs to remember what was decided last week. Before every meeting, In Parallel puts what's unresolved, what's overdue, and what the rest of the org has been deciding — right in front of you. Everyone walks in on the same page. - Open decisions from last session So you close what's been hanging — not rehash it from scratch - Commitments due for review So nobody gets blindsided by something they agreed to three weeks ago - Context from adjacent meetings So you're not making decisions in a vacuum while the rest of the org has moved on - Ask anything before you walk in One question to the brief — and you already know where it's going While you're in it ## Every decision lands. No one had to write it down. For the first time, you can actually be in the meeting — not managing notes and watching the clock. Everything is captured as it happens, structured before the call ends. What it captures - Who said what, beyond what was said - Every decision, and who made it - Every commitment, and who owns it - Risks and blockers named in passing — not lost - Questions left open — flagged, not forgotten - Ownership that shifted during the call Project weekly analysing priorities...detecting ownership gaps...scanning for risk...checking open risks...mapping dependencies... analysing priorities... What will miss next 14 days if we change nothing?Who owns the blockers no one is talking about?Which decisions from last week haven't landed yet?Which risks from last week are still open?What commitments are at risk this sprint? What will miss next 14 days if we change nothing? Meeting detail — live capture view The moment it ends ## The moment the call ends, everything updates. No follow-up to write. No notes to tidy up. No decisions to chase. Everyone who needs to know already knows — before they open another tab. Post-meeting report — generated immediately after the call Wrap-up email distributed to all attendees automatically Summary email — sent automatically to all attendees AI chat on the post-meeting report AI chat — ask anything about what was decided Pages that keep up ## What changes in meetings lands on the page. Most documents are written once, then quietly ignored as reality moves on. In Parallel keeps workspace pages honest: after each meeting, what changed is added to the pages it touched, and every edit lands in version history. What you look at tomorrow reflects what happened today. Signal "Actually, let's give that to Sarah" Recorded as Action item captured with Sarah as the owner, linked to the meeting Signal "That's going to be a problem for the launch" Recorded as Risk recorded and kept open until someone resolves it Signal "We're not going to hit that by Friday" Recorded as Obstacle recorded, and the project page updated after the meeting Signal An action nobody followed through on Recorded as Back on the agenda next session — automatically Signal "We're shifting our Q3 focus" Recorded as Decision recorded with its status, and the workspace pages it touches updated Meetings list — full scope view Why it can be just enough ## One picture. Four levels. Each reader gets the one they need. #### 04 ### Status Where the project stands right now, in one place. What a reader needs if they are deciding whether to intervene. #### 03 ### Storylines How the project arrived here — what changed, when, and what it displaced. The reasoning behind the status. #### 02 ### Observations What is actually happening in the work — actions and who owns them, progress, obstacles and risks, and decisions when they are made. #### 01 ### Meetings & documents The raw material: transcripts, threads, files. Captured once, never circulated. ### Each level is built from the one below it, and stays traceable to it. The transcript is the liability; the context inside it is the asset. So a status page can be trusted as correct without the reader being handed the transcript that produced it — and that is not something file permissions can express, because a file has exactly one resolution: all of it. **Actions** · **Progress** · **Obstacles** · **Risks** · **Dependencies** · **Escalations** · **Decisions** · **Opportunities** · **Learnings** Plug in, don't swap out ## Works with what you already use. Don't see yours? We'll add it. Microsoft 365 Copilot ### Microsoft 365 Copilot Connect all your work items on Microsoft 365. Microsoft Teams ### Microsoft Teams Transcribe your calls and chats. Microsoft Sharepoint ### Microsoft Sharepoint Easily attach files to tasks to keep teams and work connected. Microsoft PowerBI ### Microsoft PowerBI Access your existing business intelligence and analytics. Microsoft Outlook ### Microsoft Outlook Connect your Outlook calendar so the notetaker joins your meetings. Slack ### Slack Get updates, create and delegate tasks without leaving Slack. Google Workspace ### Google Workspace Connect all your work items on Google Workspace. Google Calendar ### Google Calendar Connect your work calendar so the notetaker joins your meetings. Google Meet ### Google Meet Transcribe your calls and chats. Linear ### Linear Connect your system for modern software development. Atlassian Jira ### Atlassian Jira Connect your system for modern software development. Hubspot ### Hubspot Connect your CRM and marketing intelligence. Salesforce ### Salesforce Connect your CRM and marketing intelligence. Asana ### Asana Connect your system for modern software development. ## Start with your next meeting. Bring your team in. Use every surface, including every other team's. From €29 per user per month, billed monthly, no commitment. [Get started](https://www.in-parallel.ai/) [Book a demo](https://www.in-parallel.com/demo) 30-minute demo. We'll show you how meeting signals become a shared record of decisions, owners and risks. 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