For chiefs of staff: attend everything, be in one place
The chief of staff job is coverage — knowing what happened in the rooms you were not in, and noticing the pattern across them. It does not scale by attending harder. Donna attends the meetings you cannot, writes the read you would have written, and keeps the cross-meeting ledger that turns eight isolated reports into an actual picture of what leadership keeps promising.
What this job loses without a real record
- Three leadership meetings run in parallel and you can be in one.
- The same decision gets re-made in two different rooms with two different outcomes.
- A commitment made in a monthly review quietly expires because no artefact outlives the meeting.
The sections that earn their keep here
Owners and dates pulled out of the conversation, with dodged commitments pinned down rather than politely omitted — the follow-up list you would otherwise chase by hand.
Who ran the meeting versus who ran the conversation. Across a quarter of reports this is an organisational map you cannot get any other way.
The decision record, including the ones made without a tradeoff being discussed — which is exactly the class of decision that gets re-opened later.
The lens that fits
The Boardroom — Power dynamics, subtext, and what nobody said — the classic Donna. Meetings Donna classifies as corporate — leadership reviews, board sessions, cross-team decision meetings, and anything that does not fit another lens. Donna selects it from the meeting itself, so nobody has to remember to switch modes.
The meetings behind it
Questions, answered straight
Can Donna attend a meeting the executive is not in?
Yes. She joins from her own browser as an independent participant, so coverage does not depend on anyone being present — the host admits her the same way they would admit any guest.
How do I keep one executive’s reads separate from another’s?
Meetings belong to their owner, and org workspaces keep a team’s meetings and spend scoped to that org. Sharing is explicit: a link, an email to named people, or an export.
Is there a single place to see what everyone owes?
The Receipts ledger tracks open commitments across meetings until they are kept, and each new report carries the still-open ones back in — which is the cross-meeting view a follow-up job actually needs.
Put Donna in your next meeting
Access is open — sign in with your Google account and she’s in your dashboard in minutes. Rolling out to a whole team, or want a hand with the server setup? We’re glad to help.