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News and guides from the Circleback team.
How Circleback Writes Meeting Notes and How to Check Them
How Circleback turns a meeting into notes, from speaker-labeled transcripts and screen content to private notes, and how to check any note against the recording.
AI Notetakers That Don't Send a Bot to Your Zoom or Teams Call (2026)
Circleback's desktop app records Zoom and Teams calls with no bot, on every plan including Free, compared with Granola, Krisp, Jamie, Fellow, Fathom, and more.
How we rebuilt our Electron recording engine in Swift
How we moved our Electron app's recording engine from the render process to native Swift, bridging ScreenCaptureKit and libobs to React with a Combine-to-Jotai tool.
How to Build 13 Circleback Automations: Complete Setup Guide
Step-by-step setup instructions for 13 Circleback automations — CRM updates, Slack routing, follow-up drafts, customer feedback extraction, and more.
13 Circleback Automations That Save Hours Every Week
Practical automations you can build in Circleback right now — from sales call summaries in Slack to CRM syncing to AI-powered customer health alerts. No code required.
How to Connect Circleback to Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor with MCP
Connect your meetings, calendar, and email to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI tools through Circleback's MCP connector. One-click setup, no code required.
Meeting Data as AI Context: Why MCP Changes Everything
Your AI assistant is only as useful as the context it has. Meetings are the richest source of work context most teams aren't piping into their AI tools. Here's why that's about to change.
What Is MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Why Your Meeting Tool Needs It
MCP is the open standard that lets your AI assistant access your meeting data, calendar, and email. Here's what it actually does, how it works, and why it matters for how you use AI at work.
Recording Consent for AI Meeting Notes: What You Need to Know
The one-party vs. two-party consent framework is dangerously incomplete. Here's what recording consent for AI meeting notes actually requires — across US states, GDPR, and regulated industries.
When Should Your AI Notetaker Be Visible, and When Shouldn't It?
AI meeting tools offer bot-based and desktop recording. A visible bot is ideal for team meetings; desktop recording works better for sensitive calls. Here's how to choose.
How AI Meeting Notes Actually Work
AI meeting notes involve 4 distinct stages — speech recognition, speaker diarization, summarization, and action item extraction. Here's what's really happening and why it matters.
How to record a Zoom meeting
Recording a Zoom meeting is straightforward. But getting value from that recording? That's where most people get stuck.