A Google Meet attendee with perfect recall
Does Donna work with Google Meet? Yes — Google Meet is Donna’s native platform. She joins the call as a visible participant from your own server, is admitted by the host like any guest, records the meeting’s audio and screen, and delivers a timestamped transcript plus an eight-section intelligence report minutes after the call ends.
Why Meet-first, and why a real browser
Donna attends through an actual Chromium browser on your VPS — the same client a human uses — driven by Playwright, with a virtual display and virtual audio device standing in for a laptop. That choice keeps her honest: she sees exactly what a participant sees, captures the platform’s clean mixed audio rather than a distant microphone, and appears in the room like anyone else. No screen-scraping APIs, no privileged access, no invisible presence.
The admission etiquette
Google Meet holds external participants in the lobby until a host admits them — for a bot, that is a feature: every Donna attendance is an explicit host decision. The polite pattern teams settle into fast: the organizer mentions “Donna’s taking the record today,” admits her, and the meeting proceeds with everyone free to actually pay attention.
What she captures on Meet
Everything the room saw and heard: meeting audio from the platform feed, and the screen — slides, demos, shared docs — recorded server-side and compressed after the call. When her report cites [00:43:12], the recording shows what was on screen at [00:43:12]. That evidentiary pairing is the difference between notes and a record. More: Do AI meeting bots record video?
Questions, answered straight
Does Donna need Google Workspace admin setup?
No admin console work — she joins as an external guest via the meeting link and host admission, which works on standard Meet calls. Your organization’s own policies about guests and recording still apply, as they should.
What if the host forgets to admit Donna?
She waits in the lobby, retries politely, and if nobody admits her she stands down and reports a failed join in the dashboard — no half-recordings, no mystery states.
Can Donna attend back-to-back meetings?
One meeting at a time per Donna instance — she is a genuine attendee, not a fleet. Teams with heavy overlap run her where she matters most; the upload pipeline covers the rest after the fact.
Put Donna in your next meeting
Donna deploys onto your own VPS in an afternoon: nginx, pm2, PostgreSQL, your API keys. Early access is open — tell us about your team and we’ll get her a seat at your table.
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